The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi - #169 The 36 Questions That Lead to Love - Pt 2 (Patreon Exclusive)

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

Gianmarco and Russell continue on New York Times' "36 Questions That Lead to Love" in this Patreon exclusive series. Producer Paige third wheels this episode, and we all discuss our childhoods, ponder existential questions, and get into a heated debate about extraterrestrial life. Subscribe to our Patreon to watch and listen to the rest of this bonus episode. Part three is coming soon! Join the Patreon to watch and listen to the full episode!  Get tickets to our live podcast recording in NYC on December 4 here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/700533383207 Watch the episode clip HERE! Follow The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi on Instagram Follow Gianmarco Soresi on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, & YouTube Subscribe to Gianmarco Soresi's email & texting lists Check out Gianmarco Soresi's bi-monthly show in NYC Get tickets to see Gianmarco Soresi in a city near you Watch Gianmarco Soresi's special "Shelf Life" on Amazon Follow Russell Daniels on Twitter & Instagram E-mail the show at [e-mail] Produced by Paige Asachika & Gianmarco Soresi Video edited by Dave Columbo Special Thanks Tovah Silbermann Original music by Douglas Goodhart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So check it out. Stay sad, but in the funny way, this is The Downside. What's a mystery you would answer? Is there extraterrestrial life out there? There definitely is. I don't think we...

Again, this is the grand thing that I don't know how anyone disputes it. If there was proof of extraterrestrial life definitely is, they've already admitted it the government's admitted it Russell if that was real which it has been debunked

and the guy who did it is an alcoholic who beat his wife, blah blah blah are you talking about the Mexico one? no, the Mexican one's a different one that one is insane it was a picture like paper mache Are you talking about the Mexico one? No, the Mexico one's a different one. That one is insane. You saw the Mexico one where it was a picture. I mean, it was like... Like papier-mâché aliens.

It was nuts. It was insane. Listen, guys. People, fans of Lewis and who go, would he shut up about psychics? Here's part of it. When I went through my existential phase in college, I looked into all the psychic things.

I looked into all the ESP stuff. I found the people who believed it, who scientifically proved it, and I fell for it for a bit. And then you do more research, and you go, wow, they're full of shit. And not just the regular level of scam artists. There's scientists who've deluded themselves or who have fallen

off and believe in this thing. And it's the same way where you see scientists who believe the you know, the vaccine is a purposeful Jewish conspiracy. It's the same way where, yeah, there's some scientists who believe in the psychic ghost, blah, blah, blah. But they're outliers. They're wrong. You're so annoying about this.

I wish it was true. But if I came in and said, oh, unicorns are real. And everyone you go to, they go like, I'm seeing a Bigfoot specialist today so they can give me some advice about my career because Bigfoot. But that's – it is as equally accurate to say that a Bigfoot exists and when you see him, depending on which way he's looking, it tells you which career you should choose. Yeah, it is. That is equally as rational. No.

And we all have to sit here and go like, if I came in and just made up a thing, you'd say, what? OK, the amount of times that there's been hundreds of people who have all seen the same thing, and it might not be extraterrestrials, but we're talking about UFOs. We're talking about unidentified flying. Why don't they have a video? They have so many videos. The government has released videos of things that they're tracking.

And they're usually spy balloons or a drone or something else. We don't have little alien bodies. Let's say that. We don't have that, probably. We don't have that. bodies. Let's say that. We don't have that, probably. We don't have that. How in all these years we couldn't get one? We couldn't get one. So let me get this straight. The aliens, they're invincible? None of them

have ever died? They're definitely fucking smarter than us, okay? Why? Because they're able to travel at things that we can't even comprehend. We went to the moon. Why? To me, that's the... Why? They're not there, so they can't even comprehend. We went to the moon. Why? To me, that's the... Why? They're not there, so they can't travel

because they're not there. We've sent out signals. Oh, and they're going to just answer? If they know more than us, why would they answer and tell us anything? They're probably just exploring like we are, you know?

But they're able to do it and travel more. Listen, I don't know the answers. I'm just saying there's no way in all the universes i don't disagree with that that we're the only but i think that i think the life probably looks like if you look in a telescope or it's like a big cell or it's a big squishy ball and there's no communication and we wouldn't want to talk to them well but this is very frustrating. You're such a skeptic. It's so boring.

But it's real. I know, but I'm just saying. But it's real. The only difference between me and the. Just be open to a little bit of magic. Okay, that's the other thing I thought was interesting is that you like magic, but you're a skeptic. Because magic is fake. Yeah. That's interesting.

You know the answers. You have to know. You have to know. That's interesting i you know the answers you have to know you have to know that's something about you you have to know you're like i like magic because i know that it's fake and i know that they have a way of doing what we need to do is we need to have like there was a skeptic that i used to go so i used to watch yeah named michael schirmer who's very skeptical he's like someone i read and i was like oh he'd be an interesting guest. I'll be the more fruity. But then of course I go on Twitter, and aside from promoting atheism, he doesn't like trans people.

And you're like, god damn it, dude. What the fuck? We got a psychic who doesn't like trans people, and we got a skeptic who doesn't like trans people. What the fuck? What the fuck, guys? I want to do a bit about the psychic. Oh, you believe in spirits, but genitals, that's the thing that's fucking cut. Get the fuck out of here. Alright, guys. Yeah, that's crazy. I want to do a bit about the psychic, like, oh, you believe in spirits, but genitals, that's the thing that's fucking cut. Get the fuck out of here.

Alright, guys. This is New York Times. I don't know if we're falling in love. I'll just tell you. Yeah, this did not feel like a love. This is what happens. We skip the question. It's chaos. So, keep subscribed. We're going to be doing one extra a month, on top of the one live extra a month. I'm very grateful for

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