The Shane Dawson Podcast - The Human Gum Conspiracy Theory

Episode Date: May 31, 2026

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

And we'll talk. I just cut into an onion. And look at this. Oh. What? No. It looks like it's alive. It's a lot.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Did she discover like an alien egg or something? Literally. 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 too bad, I'm just going to be honest. I can't even talk. This is kind of a rough day for me and for

Ryan Linden. And I was going to 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 going to 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 there's so much love. And she's giving 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 if we forget a disclaimer, please jump in and remind me that this is all of our livelihoods. My client is just representing his own personal. opinions that does not reflect anything the views of the podcast or any of the other hosts. I should have been a lawyer. 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. Well, we tried that. I'm not good enough with AI to make that work.

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 literally 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, you know, some games. Or we miss personal stories.

Like, 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. It is going to cause so much drama and tension. Yeah, actually, yes. Actually, maybe. We're going to be playing a game called Agree or Disagree.

And Spencer has made cups with our faces on it. I want to laugh. You should never buy sheets from a thrift store or a yard sale. Get me past. I landed right on it. 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? Your check engine lights on too. Now my- Tire pressure. Keep taking it in. That'd be so funny. That's the first thing we talk about.

It's constant. And it's crazy. Yes, the tires are full, but the sensor is broken. Conspiracy. Oh, yeah. So this is something we actually talked about years ago, 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, U.S. 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 27 onward will be literally surveilling every single thing you're doing in the car what the fuck is happening lawyer this is true this is actually true this is true to get a new car now i can confirm part of this because i was forced to get a new car as you know and um 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 it what do you mean it's watching if i'm paying attention what do you mean

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 going to be this little sensory thing, and it is just watching everything you're doing. So it's going to be like the self-driving feature that's like, hey, you're not paying attention, but for all drivers? Yep. And listen, I will say this, disclaimer. See, I'm doing good.

Disclamer, they do say they're doing this because they're trying to remove drunk driving. They're going to have blood alcohol sensors in all cars at the 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? Interesting drunk face, RTF. What if you're drunk 24-7 and it's only used to seeing you drunk? Whoa. Wow. So yeah, let's just jump into some of these videos that are insane.

I don't think people realize how big of a deal with the government is letting happen under our noses right now. So in 2021, a bill with... 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 songs give me anxiety I know he's some 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 inebated drivers, why do they want cameras recording us in our cars the whole time? What song is that? I'm so anxious. I really hope that doesn't catch on. I kind of like the weird ominous one that everybody uses. My heart is racing because of that song. Yes, that proves that the technology's not fucking ready yet but they're like well and it's already in my car yeah it's not ready not ready great i wonder at one point we were talking about amazon they had a store where you walked in yeah yeah if you like stole anything they knew but what was the case it was just guys in like another country just watching footage if you still don't that's the case here

where it's like guys watching your video and you're just getting like a random thing in your speaker wake up what oh my god i didn't know that we're preventing drunk drivers and I kind of am in favor of that you are so no I'm grieving no I do so easily well no this is already sit we already technology doesn't work no we all have but it's it's it's it's illegal for them to you like technically illegal for them to use your phone camera right that's technically I think they do it anyways this is allegedly but this is a fully legal lawyer lawyer's gonna get a lawyer off the cuss but okay so like when I'm driving and self-driving mode and I'm looking to the side it's like pay attention or we're going to turn off

self-driving right yes if it does that for like sleepy drivers or distracted drivers it might help I agree with you but I think that's just an excuse it's like for everyone to have it's like until that technology is available it's an excuse to and if it doesn't work it's like well why are we still do it's it's like it's convinced back well no I I still think if the technology works I'm in favor of it 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 going to take over kill everyone but you know like break a few eggs like that's kind of how this feels anyways let's move on to the next video my favorite part about the 2026-6-5 is that if you don't start accepting agreements you have no climate controls

guys i can't i can't change my climate because i didn't accept an agreement before rolling no way what in the hell is wrong with new cars i just blast the heat i will say this is going to make the value of older cars skyrocket. Well, that's where I'm thinking great excuse to buy a car this year. Yeah, or just any year before this year. Yeah, 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 said like agreed all that stuff. It's like they're just, and I remember the whole thing was like they were tracking people's

sex lives like through your phone, whatever. That's nothing. I had to sign up for an app to be able to drive my car. I was like, what do you mean? Like this is before I put the key in and I drove and now I needed to like sign a billion documents. And I'm sure you read all the terms and conditions. The guy was literally like, you can skip this, you can skip this. That's crazy.

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Canadian New Vehicle Total Registrations for calendar year 2025 for the Cadillac definition of luxury. After watching this, you'll never want to buy a new car ever again. Any new cars have this feature that I'm going to call the Eye of Saron. This is a driver monitor system that watches your eyes to see what you're looking at if you're paying attention all of that. 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 you.

You pair that with the fact that the automakers, also have your GPS coordinates at all times. And now you can see why I call this the eye of Soron. 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, maybe somewhere in the steering wheel. 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. I don't want to be tracked. I don't know about you guys, but these older cars seem a lot more appealable now, like and chair. Okay. You know, in the midst of all of this, I think I may have an invention.

they could become huge. Okay. Glasses with eyeballs on them that are looking straight ahead that look real. The ping pong balls. Yeah. So you'll just be driving and be like

but they have the screen protectors on. The sensors will be looking at the eyes on the glasses so you could kind of get away from this whole thing. You really are combating the AI. Yeah, you know, just saying. Find them on Dongstit.com. Wow. So he's not my new lawyer.

I may need legal counsel. Spencer? Well, you came to the wrong place. I guess my concern, I mean, many concerns, but it's going to desentatize us to, like, other things. So this is just like the beginning of everything. You know, I think now, because 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 going to really burn us down to, you know, the ground.

Which is totally not what they want. Or run us to the ground. Yeah, it's just too much. They don't want to sick and depressed and needing to take all their medications and buying it. Lawyers, step in, step in. He's kidding. I'm happy to tell your own lawyer to step in. All right, this is the last one about this woman's experience renting a car.

I've seen a few posts about this and I wanted to comment on it because I have a personal experience with it. It isn't 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. This will be great. And I 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. Ew. 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. She goes on for a little while but that's essentially. 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 going to 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, are they just not going to let you drive with sunglasses on? Because they can't see them at that point. 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? 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 a 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 it, 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 lot. 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 smartcast. Any Vizio televisions that have been manufactured in 2006 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 that 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? That's why I want to go to Walmart so much. My aunt has been boycotting them for years and I'm now on board. But you are free to make your own choices. That's bullshit. That runs so deep. It makes me sick to my stomach. That's also interesting because we've been talked about the like dynamic pricing here before

and now it's like tied into. You can tell they have like a big plan like allegedly. They have a big plan and it's all going to get. Well, 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 miss 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, etc. We're looking like doomsday preference. We got a TV from like 2005. We got a car from 2009.

Like, we're killing it. I might just go get a Nokia phone. Wait, what about the van? Well, it's a 2023. Yeah, we're safe. Who Justin just just made it. So yes, we've talked about the dynamic pricing and the price tags. I saw this video on Instagram, right?

Which I was like, well, yeah, 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 going to show you like regular price tags. Okay, look, paper, regular price tags. This is how much everything is.

and then you come over here and look at these ones. That's a camera right there. So they're replacing all of the paper ones with those digital ones that they can change automatically. But they have a camera. Okay. She's to send her girlfriend back and see what price they are for her. Right. So that allegedly is not a camera.

It's like some sort of infrared light thing that connects with. If you're like an Uber Eats or DoorDash, it 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 true. But I wonder also what is like the full scope here of them? Because let's say we walk in and we're looking at prices and boxes of cereals $599, the next person at $6.99, 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 have 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? I mean, when do they start tracking you? You know, obviously Walmart at your house with your TV. 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. I could have just helped them out. Oh, we've never thought about that. It's factual though. They have bought Vizio and you have to have the Walmart app to use the interface. 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. And listen, I love Walmart. You do? I don't hate Walmart. But I'm going to 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 a fault. But this is fucking crazy. I will say Walmart responded in the comments on this real. 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.

I just cut into an onion. And look at the shit. Oh, my God. Oh. What in the actual fuck. It looks like it's a lot. It's hollow. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Like, this is the bag of my eyes. I just got this from Walmart, like a grocery delivery a few days ago. Are they expired? It looks alien. You know? What? The fuck is this?

Did she discover like an alien egg or something? Literally. 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. It's so rough. It's like...

That's crazy. Whoa. Whoa. Like that fucked me up. And that's what you buy an onion too. You're like, hmm, looks good.

Why does everyone want us dead? 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 it always thinks then I see this this is posted by a dentist his name is Dr. Jerry and he is a dentist and he posted 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 says morning keep out of region children again. If more than his accident, contact poison control center right away, right there. In two weeks, you destroy. Oh, my gosh. You're actually right. Sorry, you're interrupt. Do not use it. Yeah, yeah. Children under 12 years. No way. Yeah. Really? Sorry. I was listening. No, no, no. I mean, the reality is, and I was happy, because I talk 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. I love mouthwash. Is there a safe version? Don't they say to use the ones with non-alcohol? Because like the alcohol is bad. You should use coconut oil.

That's like the best thing you can do this. It's a coconut oil pulling. I mean, listen, like Ryland said, not me. It is suspicious. Come from me. It's not going to affect him. There is a lot of suspicious things going on. And this one is what, and this is going to 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 Flones? I'm a big Flonais fan. You really are. I love my Flonais. 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? No.

I use Flonais all the time. What's happening? You're probably using it wrong. And if you're not, I will be very impressed. This threw me through a fucking loop. Team, uh, 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 snort it up. Snort 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. 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. These haven't bothered me. Wow. What a happy ending. I learned this. I learned this a couple months ago when I was dying from allergies. Wait, so 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? It is like, why does everyone think that until you do a deep dive and realize you're wrong? 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. If you taste it, you lose.

Let me, okay, hold on. Not to come for Flones because as we've discussed, I love her. But like, what does it do in the commercial? Are they showing that in the commercial? I feel like even the instructions when you like peel the back tell you to do that. Well, I wonder if that does damage to your throw in long term. Probably. You're not supposed to use it more than like five or something.

Oh, it doesn't. Oh, so I just clicked on a Flonaze ad. It just shows it right after he used it. It doesn't actually show him use it. Look. He's like, who's pulling it down. Come on. Wow.

Listen, not trying to come for you, Flonase. I'm still going to buy you. Come on. Why aren't you showing me how to use it in your ads? Am I in a dream? Am I in a nightmare? No. I'm in Atlantis.

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This is called the Slop Bowl conspiracy. Have you heard about this? I bet you I can guess it. 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. Have you noticed it influx in every single restaurant now is just a bunch of fucking slop in a bowl? That's it.

It's Chipotle. It's Kava. It's like all these places. Love these places. But it's all just here's a bowl, you fucking pig. Fill it with slop and shut the fuck up and eat it. Lawyer. And it's like, yeah.

Scoop. Spak. Eat it real fast. We'll make it real fast for you. Y'll slop it all. down like a fucking pig and then you're out the fucking 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 and a bowl. No, I had a slop bowl at a sit-down restaurant yesterday. Love it. Okay. Well, there might be a little reason for this. 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 formed. where the extremes 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, treated 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, and those mid-tier restaurants that are mostly mom-tieer and 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 encapsulate this better than corporate slopballs. The bland beige sandwich 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. He's angry like me. 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. And 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 myth to your restaurants created a vacuum and investors rushed it. not to fund creative food, but to fun 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 is according to live, love, laugh sign in the restaurant, old to eat a $24 burger. In 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 followed a better understand how money and power works. Wow, he is. He got me. Wow. I think there's no way we could watch that without just giving some flowers to Chili's. They still do the three for me.

It's still cheaper to get a whole meal, like a three-quarters meal of Chili's than a Big Mac at McDonald's. You are not going to turn me into a Chili's. Apologist. You're not going to get Shane there. I'm just saying. I love chill. I do think there is in the game later in the show. There is a Chili's.

This is going to cause some issues. This is what I was thinking is going to cause drama. But we'll save it. But listen, I am pro-ant-slapp bowl. Any restaurant that pops up, any mom and pop, I'm going to give you guys a try. It's so much easier to get the slot bowl. Mom and Slop. 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. Because now we're addicted to the slot bowls because they're so easy because they're so fast. And you don't have to wait. You'll walk in, you get your slop and you leave. So I don't know.

It's very interesting. And I think they justify it too by saying like, well, this is a healthier option. Yeah, right. Yeah. Because all of these places are more, you know, health this, health that. Like, Kava is really good because it's healthy. So yeah, I think that's how they're able to raise their prices so much. I will say if you live anywhere in a city,

Look up your local food truck alley. Food trucks are a great alternative. Yeah. 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 up food truck alleys.

Good tip. Yes. Or chilies. 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 deep. Don't get me fucking started on them. Oh, we're starting. There might be another place you can give Girl Scout cookies and they might maybe be the exact same fucking thing.

Period. You're around and I don't have to feel guilty saying no. So the great debate rages on. Does Dollar Tree sell Girl Scout cookies? You heard what I said. Does Dollar Tree sell a knockoff brand of Girl Scout cookies or is it the same thing in a different packaging? This mother right here may have just...

It looks like he's in Austin Power. Probably idiot talk about to say that the Dollar Tree and Girl Scout cookies don't taste the same. We 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 Thinman. and here is a knockoff from the dollar tree. Dollar tree manufactured by inner big foods. Girl Scout, inner bake foods.

The address on where they're manufactured. Wow. No. The ingredients, exactly the same. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. These two boxes and cookies are 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 because this time of year by Girl Scout cookie. So there you have it for yourself. Debate over. We're going to have to make a group decision on this one. Oh, yes. Because Girls.

season as I learned the other day is over but you can order them online they have not arrived yet the official girls got cookies have not arrived we do have the dollar store once bring them out okay as it has a group do we want to wait and do the comparison or do we want to just have test of I remember what they taste like I'm gonna get him I do in here I too remember I do I do with the other time there cookies are maybe I need them what are we talking thin mint Samoa Multiple flavors.

I'm nervous. So we have fudge mint. We have these, I don't even the peanut butter ones. Tagalongs. And then they didn't have the coconut ones. Oh, fuck them. This is like looked like it. I think these are just dollars for cookies.

I'll take some of those. I hate them, so I'm not trying that. The taglongs I do know. I do know the flavor. They have like little dots on them. Oh, we talked to you don't like mint and chocolate. I got a good. You went broke.

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 the thin mints are the same They try to trick us with the little pin needles and the cookies white in this one cookies chocolate in the regular Oh really? Yeah, but so do they just have like a different machine that they do a little tweak? I'm guessing Allegedly You can't taste the difference between a chocolate cookie and a vanilla cookie though on a thin mint That's what I'm saying it's probably just coloring sick Sick, twisted.

Well, let's lighten it up. Just kidding. We're going to do the Wayfair conspiracy. I have avoided talking about this for six years because it scares me. And I really don't want to 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. 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 $9,99 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 used an algorithm to name their products and that some of the cabinets were expensive because they were quote-unquote industrial size meant for commercial and business use. What about the company's head of global communications Jane Carpenter also explained some of the weird pricing to be caused by a feature or a workaround where the product would default to a high price like $9,99. 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 other 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.

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, etc. Still a lot of money. 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 I think it's like, because it seems so crazy and so out there, it's like, oh, a furniture store. 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 Wayfar 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 the Wayfair 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. Yeah. I haven't seen anything about the files.

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 did just see that California is like the biggest place for UFOs to be. That makes sense. Yeah.

Literally as we're recording, Five minutes before we started filming this show, the UFO files have been released. Wait, really? That just happened today. Just happened. Pentagon releases UFO files. Moon landing sightings, orb's launching among claims. The Department of War released 162 files, including photos and videos related to UFO sightings.

Why would they release this? And why is this not a bigger deal, actually? Wow. Jared. They're setting us up. It's a fake alien invasion. But 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 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 going to get blown up. Like, what are you do? doing tomorrow? Like, it seems like a lot of things right now are pushing people to be at their width's end and like just kind of get a little bit crazy, you know? And so I do still think that 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. How can you guarantee results? by dropping the bomb ourselves. And maybe just a theory, because you're probably one way, well, how do they choose who's 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.

I don't know. Kind of scary, just a theory. Yeah, having everyone's data of, you know, the more data we have, the more comprehensive profile. easier selection process. Who we should keep. Wow. Well, just to throw in a fun one, have you guys heard about the new ugly carpet theory? No.

This one is funny. You went to our house? It is ugly. I've been saying it. This one is funny to me because originally there was a theory that you now had like those hideous carpets in all the casinos. And the theory is it's to make you confuse and get lost so that you like, you know, see all the slot machines and you get. get lost or whatever. Um, that might not be the case.

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. That's kind of the same thing. In 1930s, a London underground designer 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... I like that. Every one of these fabrics was designed for a single 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. 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 got to keep your eyes up.

Because like you got to keep scanning for like the slot machines and like everything they're selling you. Because if you look down, I was like, well, I get a headache from it, you know. I have a family member who makes carpets for airplanes. So I wonder if he's in on this. get some inside information. Are you in on this, Dan? Well, speaking of things that are ridiculous, right? This is a fun theory about the book fair. Do you guys remember the book fair? Yeah. Oh, I love the book fair. I hate books, but love book fair. It was so fun. They had like little toys and little bookmarks and little fun things. But what if there

were something else going on? 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 inside the plastic casing. You weren't just listening to your parents argue. The agency was listening to you, and those gray-needed 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. Oh my God. 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? He didn't move. He passed the exam. And he's been watching you ever since. Stop! This one's a little too far out there.

Yeah, I don't know about that one. I mean, I bought the goosebumps just so you can scratch off the bumpy parts. But I wonder if they're, oh, he has high trauma tolerance. I liked Captain Underpants. Okay. 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, like, ear drum.

It hurts so bad. Maybe that's what they wanted. You didn't pass the test, Chris. You're at Costco recent. made me think of this, but we were picking up some medication for our dog and they have like a hearing age section right next to the pharmacy.

So I was looking at him and like, I was like, 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? Whoa. And she's like, no,

they're calibrated for people hearing. And she just like walked away. Like, who is this idiot asking me these questions? I mean, I'm embarrassed. Yeah, he told me that and I said, why would you even ask? Because I thought how cool would that be? Because what if I could put them in and I can hear something like 100 feet away?

I think it's valid. I would have asked it. It's not about like binoculars for your ears. Exactly. 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 flakabassus. Yeah, I know.

I was like a, we really is flogging. It's crazy. Flux Angeles. Yes. Spadger take us through this journey. There it is. 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 six to 12 photos per car. And here's another one right here. This is in the city of Glendora right off of Fleetwood and Gros. Grand Avenue. This has been used by cops to track down their ex-wives. What?

What? This one is pointed down this way. This is by Grand and the 210 Freeway. And that's not even that far away from the first camera that I showed. 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 at all times. Well, they already know. Yeah. So this is what a flock camera looks like. And we saw it briefly in the video, but this is... I thought it was like a solar power thing.

I know exactly. They were really good to hide it. I was like, wow, there's solar power here. I thought they were like birds. 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. And it's the same, similar idea to what we were saying with the car super events.

It's basically the same thing where it's like, this is bad, right? Crime is bad. We want to catch people. drunk driving we could 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 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 I never agreed to like this. Like, no one never... How can working at your local Tims take you further? Sure, you can level up your teamwork skills. You also get a chance to receive a Tim Hortons Scholarship Award. Ready for what's next? Apply today at careers.timhorans.ca.

Greed to it, and it's just being agreed to, these cities are just doing this deal with Flok. I just got a $1,250 ticket in the mail for having my phone on my lap, face down, and both hands on the steering wheel. Pretty cool. And so this has been growing and growing. And now there's a, the website the guy went on called Dflok.org.

And it's an active map. These are screenshots I took. We can go on the website. It's an active map with all the flock cameras in the United States right now. These are just like areas. These are individual cameras. How the fuck are they missing children? That's what I was just thinking.

Like, you're saying there's Amber alerts all the time. Yep. But if we have recording devices. one's car is like you're you're asking me to look for a 1989 Toyota Sienna with the license plate but then you got cameras that's a really good point anybody but like 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 well I think especially I think in Arizona like there's a huge I don't know if you

've heard of this but native American girls get kidnapped it's like how are they not finding these people. This is crazy. Here's another video about it. 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.

What? What? What? 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 identities of people places. And it's just keeping all that data, like all of it. That's what they've got in their car right now. 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 in a corrupt fashion. And now we have the biggest surveillance system that we've ever had. Bank accounts? Yeah, why? 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. So Palantir, to give a little bit wider of a scope, what it is, it was starting. 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 it, but it's kind of hard to understand exactly the scope of what's going on there besides that 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, and watched the videos, so I have an understanding of it. But Minority Report with Tom Cruise. 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 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 going to go commit murder so we're going to go ahead and just arrest you to get it over with now so it leaves like little room for any kind of special 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 instance that's probably something they'll look acquire or they'll just make their own. I think they have a partnership with 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 can 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. people to embrace the technology. So like they wanted 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 solved? If so, I mean, it's just a byproduct of keeping kids safe. But yeah, we're going to 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. But it's like with the car thing, it's not yet effective. 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 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 can implement their system. in society, we're going to suddenly be like, well, 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, Ballantier, I mean, they have like drones. They've been responsible for things that I don't. I don't even know if we could actually talk about without getting the video taken down. And I mean, we're like funding this stuff actively. 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 ban together against these things. But they're making it near impossible when somebody buys a car and can't turn it on until they consent.

And I think that's why I brought up a lot 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 going to fall asleep. Go back to work. It's just we're robots at that point. Eat your slop on the way to work.

Yeah. 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. Let's divide and conquer. you know but yeah well that is terrifying and all coming from Jared yes not a reflection i'm just copying what i heard yeah well before we play a game where we all band together and then fight uh 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 i'm just saying it's interesting This is the gum theory. You should swallow one piece of gum every seven years. So we all know we live in a big simulation. Everything around us is a computer generate, that there's one thing that isn't part of the simulation. That's gum. Gum is weird.

You could chew it. You could just chew it, chew it, chew, too, too, forever. That's because gum comes from outside of the simulation. Gum is real. So you also know, if you swallow gum, it stays in your system for seven years. And every cell in your body changes every seven years. And 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 swallow the gum, then they can't because the gum locks you in place because the gum is real. Gum is their weakness. Swallow one piece every seven years. Any word that you might get a stomach egg, but one piece every... 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. Hey, check back in on this another episode. He is definitely going to have destroyed us

in seven years. Wow. One of the funniest things is 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

by a swallowing gun? So wait, do you shit the gum out in seven years? That's a myth, by the way, that you just pass your normal. Your stomach could disintegrate like iron. Okay. So it could definitely disintegrate. Unless you have my stomach, which can't disintegrate gum. Or corn.

There you go. Do the test. That's true. Yeah, corn. Well, to test that theory, Spencer, go to the bathroom. Bathroom. Okay. Let's play a game.

All right. We're going to take a quick little break when we come back. We have a very heated, exciting game. And we'll see if we survive. What? I have to go. It's easy. Whoa.

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It's next time. Okay, we're back. And wow, look at this game. This is fun. Explain what you did here. Yeah, thanks for the picture of me, dude. Well, I figured I wanted to find everyone's best picture. And so I did.

Sandy's isn't Goofy's Kitchen. Love it. What's wrong with Jared? What's happening there? I had my nose drop. A nose drop. Operated on. A nose drop.

But a lot of people did think I had a nose job. They're, oh, dude, you got a nose job. It's like now. So here's how the game works. Spencer is going to read different statements. And then we all will position our cup where we fall on the category from strongly agree to strongly disagree. And then we'll discuss. You have to defend your stance.

Okay. First statement, it's okay slash everybody pees in a public pool. I mean, keep it real, guys. What the fuck? Keeping it very real. All of you be in a public pool? Yeah, right. This is for show.

This is not for show. You're all sick. The piss line has been drawn. I'm not saying I do it. I'm saying, I get it. What? You don't do it,

but you get it? Listen, chlorine was invented for a reason. Ew. I'm not saying I do it. I get out and dry off, put on my shoes and walk in the bathroom. I mean, Jerry said strongly agree,

so he definitely does it. Here's the thing. definitely not a biologist by any means and he's no longer invited to pool parties in my house but will you do it too you're on his side it's my own pool like i don't know the last time i've been in a public either i don't either sounds like six years old last i've for sure peed in it to me it's like every pool i've ever been in right outside everyone there's always been a bathroom right there like right feet away pool is endless water you can pee in why would you get outside the whole point of is enjoy the pool.

Why can't enjoy it if everyone's pissing it. Well, you don't know. You're swimming in people's piss. That's for sure. If you're in a public pool, you are in peace. Don't even think about the ocean. What if you're at a friend's pool? Yeah, I would get out if I was in a friend's pool.

Everyone else? Yeah, me too. No, I'd be in the pool too. I would swim over to my own little area in pee. You're all sick. And then probably everyone said, I think you're a big. When I win the lottery, no one here is invited to my pool. Let us know.

Please, I've never wanted more comments on something in my life. Please, where are you on this spectrum? Strong and eager to strongly disagree. People pee and pools. Should we get controversial? Yes. Oh, God, okay. All right, this is referencing earlier in the episode.

You throw me mind to me. I'm scared. Chili's is the most overrated chain restaurant. Ooh. Most? No. We're all the way over. Do we got to pull up a fucking menu right now and take these prices?

I think it's factual that it's not. the most overrated. There's much worse out there. What's the most? It is so overrated. I love you, Chili's don't come from 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. Well, that's why you microwave them for 30 seconds. You know what? Chilis doesn't even want you. Okay. The pricing is a huge selling. But also, when I go out of Chili's, I feel like sick, and I feel like I want to throw up. The last two times I've been to Chili's,

I felt very bad afterwards. Wait, so you're kind of agreeing with me. That's why I'm riding the line. Why did 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 it

and you make a mistake. But why are you feeling sick? I'm assuming I'm right, but why? It's your fault. And they're not marketing health. Chili's has never been like, we're healthy. There are places that don't market health

that I don't feel like throwing up. And you know, aside from the food, they also have possibly one of the best marketing songs ever. I want my baby, back, baby, back, baby, back. I mean, come on, chilies is just all around strong. Let us know, guys. I'm not going to ask every time, but from here on now,

let us know in the comments where you stand on all of these. All right, are you guys ready? I'm ready. This is fun. You should never buy sheets from a thrift store or a yard sale. Get me past strongly. I landed right on it. You know.

This is big for you guys. I'm almost there with you. I'm almost right in the line. Oh. But only if it's like quilts. Like bed sheets, sheets. 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. But what about clothes? Do you,

would you buy clothes at the store? I don't like it because I can't get the smell out. It's the same clothes are on your body all. Dang. You know what I'm saying? People buy clothes. You're asking the wrong person.

You can't get, like, the shirt that I got. I've washed it like five times and I cannot get the smell out. But not all of the clothes are like that. That's why I can strongly disagree. There are circumstances. Chris. Yeah. So you are on the strongly agree.

Yeah. Everything is impacted by the fact that I am quite germophobic. 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.

So given the choice, jumping in a public pool. That you know, four kids just said, hey, we'll be eating. Yeah, Jared. Instead of. Yeah, Jared said it. Yeah. Versus in yard sale sheets for a night. Oh, I'd jump in a piss pool.

I don't know. 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 B. I hope. Maybe that's a percent better. Strong peeve, Chris. I don't think Lorraine's doing it. They're both awful.

But I'll probably pick the pool, but they're both awful. All right. Seeing a movie in a theater actually sucks. Wait, seeing what? A movie in a theater actually sucks. What? That's the only way I want to see a movie. I always say disagree.

I don't say disagree. Push me one forward in case I ever release a movie in three. I need to clear my name first. I go to movie theaters. I see movies in theaters. It's awful. I 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, no, we got to take the food out. It is so fucking 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. Then the talking, people just talk. And I know this has been happening for years, but it's getting worse. People on their phones. We went to see the Michael Jackson movie. The whole fucking time. I could have fucking killed

this dad. This kid is like 12 year old kid next to me. His dad just let him be on the phone the whole time. 30 minutes. And you only agree with that. You don't strongly agree with. I like the idea of a movie theater. I hate the people inside of them. 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 a same fucking commercial. So 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.

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. At Desjardin Insurance, we know that when you own a nail salon, everything needs to be perfect. from tip to toe. That's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your business

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No phones, no talking, or you're kicked out right away. Let me just say. I think there's a lot of people that would love to go to that. And a lot of these screens are pretending to be IMAX and they're not. Yes. Because we went to an IMAX screen and I was like, hi, this is smaller than our TV. They're I mid at best.

These are just group activities in general. 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 fucking rules, it's like, and they just get injected from their seat. Or it's like a buzzer. The reason I strongly disagree is because there's something about like the communal, like everyone together on the same page in this moment that's so beautiful and like transcendent and like 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, the entire theater was dead silent for my screen.

I don't like that either. Then I hear breathing. I need like ambient noise. It's best I'm just not around people. In general. Yeah. Okay. Hey,

you guys are over another one? Voice memos are the most annoying form of communication. Oh. God, that's a tough one. Because I do use them. There's a time limit, you know?

Yeah. I would say, yeah. I'm pretty much. I'm going to let the chips fall where they last. Ooh, Spencer. How long are they? That is the number one question I got asked. I'd say question number one.

What does that timer say right there? I can deal with a minute 30 and under, honestly. And that's a pretty big question. Now if you press on the play button and you hold on it, you can do two-time speed. Oh. Oh, yeah. And it will transcribe if you're just not having it. Exactly.

Yeah. So again, I'm right in the line. It's the people I put agree because 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 you. I'm 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 going to disappear. So I don't know. It's just like to voice the text. If you want to talk, like just voice the text.

The only thing more irritating than an extremely long voice. I know what you're about to fucking say. Is when they break up a text into like 50 texts. Oh. I was going to say when they do a text so long that it does this to see more clickier. Oh. Well, see, that's annoying too. But when people are like, what's up?

New text. Da, da, da, da, da, new text. It's like, motherfucker, send it in one text. Yes. You know, I don't want to keep getting things. Yeah, I do that too. The paragraph. Your voice memos are, like, the template for what a voice memo should be.

They're never too long. I agree. Thank you. There are a quick little, like, gets to the point. I'm like, just in case you thought they were talking about your voice. Just to be clear. Oh, no, I know. I'm aware of my etiquette.

All right, move on. I'm laughing also because this next one is like the same as another one we did. Oh, no. Going to concert sucks. Sox? No. Yeah. It's my favorite place to be.

I find a crowd's actually more tolerable at a concert than at a movie. Oh, 100%. Remember the clip of me? Crowdsurfing at the last war tour? Like, that's like a memory I'll relive for the rest of my life. It was so magical and incredible. Jared being in a pool is a memory. I love a concert.

I mean, I'm not going to go to the wash pit, but I love singing. I love everybody singing and just like, And then two, Jared and I will go, and Jared is, 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 and in his chair just like. Taking it in.

Taking it in, you know. So it's so much fun. At least you get him there. I am hard pressed to think of a concert. I was like, wow, what a show. Really? I loved it. I hate everything about it.

I think if I was about to say when I go to hell. Right. 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, but. I'm with you on the music festivals. I think the trick to those is just go later when the bands you actually want to see playing or playing, or else you're going to get fatigued pretty close. Yeah, yeah.

But I will say, because even the no doubt, I really want to go, but I've never been into the sphere. And so it's like, I don't know if I'm going to go all. You don't want to go too high. It gets really steep. It gets really steep. Yeah. It's like, am I even going to enjoy it? this right now. The view's good, you're just going to be nauseous because it's like so steep.

Yeah. Well, then that answers that. There we go. There we go. Cool. Wow. Well, there you guys go. That was our agree or disagree. I felt like that was a fun game. I love that. Got a little riled up. Everybody got a little testy, got a little fighting. Let us know the comments. Which ones did you agree or 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. I feel like this is fun, like going from conspiracies to something like this. Kind of fun.

You know what? I strongly agree. Yeah. 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.

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