The Shane Dawson Podcast - The Mirror Conspiracy

Episode Date: July 12, 2026

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Okay, so then I did it, right? Because I was like, oh, interesting, let me do this. Yeah. But it freaked me out. That's me. That looks like me. Okay. Oh.

Why is it? Yeah, that was my reaction. Wow, you're really blowing my mind with this one. Wow. Is that kind of scary? Hey, how it's up you guys. Okay, really quick. We want to come to your city. I'm so excited.

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And I'm really excited about it. And I can't wait for you guys to see the pilot. And yeah, I'll talk more about it in the next episode. But yeah, enjoy the episode. Bye. Hey, much of you guys, welcome back. And yes, we are one down. But you know what?

We are a neck chain. We definitely are. When I first walked in, I thought he upgraded. I got jewelry. I experienced the purchase of this. Really? Yeah. Where was it?

Tiffany's? It was a cart in the middle of them all. But it's looking Tiffany. Supporting small business. Yes. Yes. We are back. And you know what?

First of all, Spencer is okay. He is sick. We feel terrible. We were going to cancel the shoot, but me and Rylan are going to Colorado in like two days and we're going to be gone. So like, we literally had to shoot today. He was like, I could wear gloves in a mask. And I was like, Sweetie, you need it.

But this also kind of feels like old school vibes. I was going to say this feels like when we filmed the first one ever. It all feels new. So everything felt different and confusing for me. I keep looking over it, nothing. Well, we're back, guys. And we're so excited. We're going to jump into this.

We do have a game prepared. I have prepared a game that I'm kind of nervous and excited about. We're going to do it near the end of the show. But it's called guilty or innocent. But we'll get to that later in the show. But first. So maybe like two months ago, Sandy had this theory that really blew my mind. She was like, what if all these TikTok trends, you know, the show yourself when you're a baby or what you were like in 2016?

Like what if all of those are just training AI to see more pictures of us, pictures of us as a baby? Like what if AI is creating the trends, right? And like going viral and then all of us humans start to jump in and do the trends, right? Then I saw this. And oh my God. So the say it different ways trend that's going viral right now where somebody says a phrase in a bunch of different ways, that is going viral because big tech companies

need emotional training data to train their emotion recognition models. And so by manufacturing a trend on a meta platform that induces a ton of emotion recognition training data in the same format, that's an easy win for a big tech company to use or sell that data. And META does use the data that they collect from Reels to train their LLMs and potentially to sell to other clients like the federal government. Okay.

So she continues to talk about the data situation. I'm distracted because I need a diet Dr. Pepper's shirt. That's a chronic. Yeah, this is crazy. And I'm so done. Lawyer. Oh, he's not here. Lawyer.

I don't care. I'm so. Perfect. Guilty. I'm so fucking. I'm so done. I feel so stupid. Every time I see a trend now on Instagram or, well, I don't open TikTok, but every time I see a trend now, I just know this was manufactured by AI. This was manufactured by big tech. They are doing something or trying to get something. I can never enjoy the trend anymore. Although personally, I like the one where it's like emojis and it'll be like a dolphin and angry face. Do you know what I'm talking about? And it'll be like, well, not to get gross, but there was one going around like, I'm going to come. But it was like, you know, I don't think you're angry. I'm going to come and then it was a dolphin. I'm going to get him.

Whatever. You bitch. You bitch. Sucking bitch. Okay. That was incredible first. Anyways, yes. Of course, AI just needs to hear us say certain phrases in all different emotions because AI is not good at sarcasm.

It's not good at humor. I even saw an article recently that freaked me out where there is now an improv comedian group training, like working with a big tech company. to train AI on improv comedy. I'm like, what are we doing? Why are we giving AI more? It just sounds like a joke. I know. It sounds like a show. Okay.

Speaking of things that AI, we thought they couldn't do. I remember in the last episode, Jared said, well, you know what? Why don't we just get really good at cooking? Is it why I think the best thing you could do right now is learn how to cook really good food. And I can't do that. I think a robot can do that.

Yeah, Elon Buster robots are going to be able to in the future, right? You're really good at cooking. You're never going to take that ability away from a human. That's always going to be what the human does best. Check this out. Guys, I hate to be the bear of bad news, but I think this is the beginning of the end. A restaurant called Cali Express in California has a fully automated restaurant. I mean, they don't need anybody.

No one to put the fries in the oil, nobody to flip the burgers, nobody to take your order. They actually remember your order when you come in. It's fully automated. Which leads me to believe that this is going to start happening everywhere. and of course it starts in California. I hate it. I'm curious. Me too.

I mean, but. I'm sad it takes away job. I do think though, one, I can't imagine how much it is to ensure that business. If there's nobody ever in there and they're responsible for super hot grease, flipping things around, turning on fires, that's pretty crazy. And even like the face recognition, you know, to what you were talking about just before that, with how AI wants to be able to actually analyze your emotion. but in an even darker level,

let's just say that their studies show that when somebody is sad, they're more likely to buy a dessert or something like that. Like if they're sad, they like to supersize more because they like to eat the feeling. Whatever the case is,

but this is like a big deal. Like, you know, like, so when they scan your face on that kiosk that they're having you order off of, maybe if it recognizes that there's sadness in your eyes, they're like, would you like to add an extra flavor? Because last time, you came, you had that same look on your face, and your last second added that maybe to your order, or maybe the last person did. So it's like the more they can, like we talk about Palantir in the

past and how they're basically getting all this information out of you, but the other end of it is how do they use information based off of what they know about you to influence you? And all of this, I mean, there's like five other things I'm sure we'll get to, but it all makes Project Blue Bean look very, very realistic. And we haven't even gotten to aliens yet. And there's some crazy stuff about aliens that involve all of this. Well, I even, like, have noticed if I'm having a sad day, and I'm not even talking about it. Like, I'm just, like, having a sad day to myself, all open Instagram, and there'll be reels about, like, feeling sad.

Like, it literally knows. I think because it's just tracking my face, which is tracking my emotions, just a theory. So, what if TikTok is using their face ID infrared camera to watch you the whole time you're on the app to see if you're laughing, smiling, scared, crazy? and what if that's how they know what to recommend you? Because they're watching your face. It is crazy and then even sometimes I'll have a voice in my head and I'll start questioning. I'm like, why am I thinking about this?

Is my phone telling you to think about this? Very, very scary. But like Jared said, Project Blue Beam, aliens. So, if we want to get a little bit more into aliens, I could tell you something I heard. Recently, they made a lot of sense. Does it correlate with the end of the world? It does. It does have to do with the end of the world.

However, it doesn't have to do with them destroying the world. It's more or less what are they? And what is their role in the world we currently live in amongst ourselves, you know, aside from them? Yes. Tell me that right after this clip. It ties into this. Perfect. What do you mean?

Bank of England warned their people to prepare for an economic chaos sparked by alien existence. What? The Bank of England says to plan for a financial. crisis triggered by aliens. Huh? I'm sorry. What's the angle here? So yeah, the Bank of England, that's allegedly, they put that out there to tell their

clients to prepare for catastrophe involving aliens. What is going on? I think what they're getting at is the aliens are going to come and threaten us somehow. I mean, the whole thing is they want you conditioned to be afraid of aliens. I don't think any of us are thinking an alien walks in, we're hanging out, you know, know he's telling me his life story and all that but I'm also talking about the mass public you know like you guys are afraid there not everybody has the kind of critical thinking about aliens and all this they just know that aliens are out there and I wonder what the hell they would do you know so if the

mass consensus is they're going to harm us in some way that the second that we see them it's going to be like impending doom it can't be a good thing if an alien like an independence day nothing good could come of this so they want us afraid and they probably know that at that point people are going to you know resort to crazy measures, a lot of people might not survive whatever happens at that point, and people are going to barricade themselves. That's why maybe so many bunkers are being built. I don't know. But if that happens, who's spending money out there? So maybe it's a matter of there is going to be something because finances are it's going to almost cease to even make sense because the world will be in disarray from the aliens, or at least that's what they want you to

think. So maybe you close all your accounts out, you do all these things, you build yourself a bunker, you go underground, whatever the case may be. But I mean, I think it, just all ties into that. But I don't think that's the case. Twist alert. I think it can maybe be your future husband. So I had actually... I'm just saying,

they found a way to get to us. You never know. Where could they take you on a first day? What, you're married. I know, but I'm just saying. It just sounds like you're appealing to... Are you trying to fucking alien? I'm just saying,

I think this could be positive. Because you get to... Yeah, I don't like this. saying for me, I'm just saying for all of you out there longing for the right person. Maybe they're not a person. Wow. Okay. All right, so, I heard something today when I was researching one of the topics.

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So what happened is it wiped out about two-thirds of the population. And the people that were able to survive built underground colonies. And they pretty much just survived underground for potentially thousands of years. But what happened is because they lived underground for so long, they started to evolve into what made more sense for them. It was mainly dark, so their eyes had to get larger pupils, so their eyes had to get a little bit bigger. Like Gallum. And then also, they really needed to be able to think intellectually on a deeper level so they could figure things out.

They were in a much harder predicament that we might be. So their brains grew, which made their body bigger. And it was easier for them with less body weight in order to achieve the things they needed to do. And they could fit more people in their communities. You're describing a fucking alien. It's an alien, right? Or Gallum. That's all I'm thinking of me.

It could be like. column, but this is believed to be the aliens, but even some of them evolved possibly into being more reptilian because that's the underground species that has the best survival and like adaptation to it. So it somehow always goes back to lizard people, but that sounds to me like the idea is that aliens are actually humans that evolved into a place they needed to be and the people that were left here on earth all adapted to whatever region that they were in. That's why people have like maybe different attributes, let's say, because they needed to

adapt to the environment, but it goes in line with so many of the theories that we've talked about. And like, I think five years ago, if you were to bring up 10 theories to somebody, it would be very hard to interconnect any of these things. But now it feels like almost every theory that we've heard of for the past 10 years somehow is connected to all these other theories that are coming out. And it makes a lot of sense to me. It can't just all be coincidence that things are lining up the way they are. How do we identify the lizard celebrities among us? They're not, they don't reside amongst us, I guess, in this theory. if they did, I mean, but they're more or less us that are coming back like from the future to a

degree. And we're the society that was left behind. Wow. Yeah. So maybe they're good. So maybe what they're coming here for is actually to help us because their main concern is that at some point we'll take over each other and will cause the extinction. So they're going to come back and try to help the people that want to be helped. So maybe that's the case and they don't want to blow us up. First of all. Why do you look like you just survive the Titanic? Because it feels like the Titanic temperatures in here. It's so... It's 100 degrees outside. Are you guys not cold? No. Okay. Do you want us with chairs?

I will because it's blowing right in my face. I had a really good point, but I forgot what we were talking about. Oh, yes, we should be more afraid of AI than aliens. That was my wrap around. Yes, we should definitely be more afraid of AI than you. AI is going to kill us way before the aliens. Well, you know what else AI does? Manufactures Trends. You know who else manufactures trends? You know who else manufactures trends, potentially the government. When I saw this, I, because I have been saying every time a trend comes around, there has to be

a purpose for it, right? I know the original theory, this is just a theory, and we probably cut it out of the episode when we talked about it because it's too gross, but there was a theory that Dubai chocolate was created to like change the search results because before when you had searched Dubai Chocolate, it was like people getting pooped on. Two girls one cup showed up. It was a lot first. So allegedly they came up with, do buy chocolate.

And just wipe that out. But then, did you guys notice that started? And then pistachios became the it girl. She was in every fucking thing. She's in coffee. She's in desserts. She has milk now. It's true.

She's literally, like every restaurant you go to, they're like, pistachio-crested fries. And I'm like, nobody wants us. Well, I try it. But it's like too much. Well, there might be a reason. knew there was a reason that every single person was selling pistachios super hard this year, but I couldn't figure out why. I thought maybe it was just a trend reaching the U.S. from the

Middle East because that's where they eat and sell a lot of pistachios. But apparently the reason overall that we're selling so many more these fast few years is because the U.S. government does not like the fact that Iran exports and sells a lot of pistachios. Them and Turkey are the largest sellers of that product. And so as a result, they've done a really large push in California to have farmers start selling and growing pistachios. Because of this push, they are now cornering 99% of the market in the U.S. in California. That's where they're growing all of our pistachios. And people are obligated to buy them right now because tariffs make buying pistachios out of the country way more expensive. And so in general, it's all a big plot to corner the market and take all the money away from a

on. And it's funny because it's in California, a state that notoriously has a drought. So growing pistachios there is just a stupid idea. The plot thickens. What she said? Yes. Okay. It kept getting deeper. It's crazy. I'm so done with trends in general, with Instagram trends, the emotion trends that AI is doing, and now food trends, because I feel like every few months, there's a new one. And to me, it always ties back to a theory. The protein trend. Oh my God. I. We're still in that one, but everything, high protein, high protein, high protein. And now learning that allegedly just a theory, they want us to stop eating meat because, you know, we talked about in the last episode. And if we stop eating meat, we're going to need to get protein from somewhere else.

And now they're putting protein in fucking everything in candy bars. Like, what are we doing here? So now I'm just saying, in the future, when we start to see a food trend start to go viral. And listen, I'm not talking about dirty diet Coke because she's fine. Okay, dot cakes. That's the most recent one. What could have been the reason for Doc Cake? Because there has to be a theory about it.

Those sprinkles weren't selling because they're the worst. Honestly. And they needed a way to move them. Listen, that's a surface level theory. So that they can go under production or out of production. What is a doctor? You're going to laugh. Where do you do?

I mean, I guess dog cakes haven't crossed paths with me just yet. Okay. I can't even guess what that. They're coming your way. And I really think it's something that the aliens made to confirm that we're dumb enough to take us out. even though I've been on their side. And what are they? It's just a piece of cake.

I'll Google an image for you. It's just everywhere on Instagram. Everywhere. And now it's dot everything. You can get a dot cake latte. You can get a dot cake bagel. You can get a dot cake, but you can do mashed potatoes. And instead of sprinkles, it's bacon.

It's too much. So they're basically just putting cakes in cups and putting the dot sprinkles on top. Oh, fuck dot cakes. I hate dot cake. I just know what they were. Could care less if I ever find out. Speaking of food, this is a lot of food. a very, but I just want to take you on this little mini rabbit hole that I went down.

I'm going to start by showing you this. And I'm only going to show you the first five seconds of this room. Listen, did you know that the human brain has the same consistency as room temperature butter? Okay. Your brain has the same consistency as room temperature butter. So then I googled it because I was like, that can't be true, right? My brain can't be sloshing around. That can't be real.

I Google it. A little bit liquidy? And then it said, yes. The brain has the same temperature as warm butter that's been sitting out for a while. Other good comparisons, soft gelatin or jello, very, very ripe avocado. And tofu. Interesting. So I could just be.

I like, you guys aren't shook by this? No. I have butter in my head. What's protecting your skull? Yes. Your brain is butter is crazy. Your brain is butter. Your brain is butter.

Like all those cool little things that your brain looks like, you know, it's like, do-d-do-do-do. It looks kind of fun and cool. It's butter. So if you're telling me that like if I touched it, it would just go. Your temperature butter is the best butter. I just have questions. Like, I'm like, it's not the same consistency. It's just the same temperature.

I think it's just being held in. Consistency, Chris. It can't be as soft. It is. But we have a skull. Here we go. He's on the same page as me. Okay, maybe now.

It's pulling my mind more. Because I think I just fully rejected it being the same consistency. A super ripe avocado. I'm going to throw up. You can just take your finger through it. I know. My butter rejects. Whoa.

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I do not. I respect the hustle. I understand. It's a new world. It's a new audience. It's a new situation. Have you heard about the controversy about the trailer for their movie, Hext?

No. Okay, it's a new animated movie. It's about a witch or something, and she has magical powers, and she's in high school, right? So I saw this, like, everywhere. Why are people so upset about this Disney movie? I'm going to show you a little, a few seconds of it. And you tell me if you notice anything a little strange. My whole life, I felt like there was something wrong with me.

Why didn't even hear who I'm such an alt-chance? Oh, sure. Billy, you owe me a 10-page essay on why you're a pain in my boss. Do not make me call your mom. What in the... Okay. Anything noticeable about this trailer, that feels maybe a little off. Did they create the visuals with AI?

No? No. Well, I'm having a hard time. People started to notice that this trailer was odd because the main character is always in the center of the frame. And every important moment is always in the center of the frame. They want to repurpose it for shorts. They made this movie. No.

Allegedly, just a theory. Knowing that young people are probably only going to ever watch it on their phones. So they made it just in case, allegedly, in a way where they could just crop the whole movie. Do you mean, now that you're saying that, looking at the screen, it almost looks like, hey, here's where you crop it. That's what the theory is. Literally. So like, if you rewatch this the first few seconds, like, let's rewatch together and like, let's crop it. And you can see it.

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Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, literally. Every single moment the magic out. Do you think? I think it's genius.

I mean, it's a very smart thing to think out that far ahead and know that, I mean, they're doing analytics constantly. So they know that 80% of people are consuming 80% or more of their content through reels. And it's all about attention these days. So if they're not getting your attention to reels, how are they getting in front of you? So I think it's smart. I mean, granted, what it is. I mean, do you think we're getting to a place on Netflix where it's going to be like, are you watching it vertically or horizontally?

Allegedly, just a theory that is something happening. And you know, it's so funny. Like five years ago, everybody made fun of that company Quibi. Oh, yes. And it was like the first streaming platform made for your phone. And everybody was like, because you could watch it like this or you could rotate it. And everybody's like, aha, that's so stupid. Literally, they were just ahead of the curve because everything now is going to be this.

Disney Plus now, allegedly, I think, is incorporating that you can now watch everything vertically. Like, it's very interesting. Like, even for me out here trying to pitch the pilot and get my show made, I have had people be like, well, what about repurposing or doing something and turning into like TikToks? Or like, what about making it vertical? What about this? And I'm like, but I didn't frame it like that. There's no, like, it's so it's almost impossible because you're never going to see both characters at the the same time? I don't know. That's a weird crazy world if everything starts filming in a way that

can be utilized as to. That's how it feels. Because it is going to be so many people just consuming like this. I mean, listen, I get it. And I know I'm just old man yelling at the sky or whatever, but I'm so sad and over it. I hate it. It's like the exact opposite of cinematic is shooting everything vertical and center frame is inherently like not cinematic at all whatsoever. Like when you think of cinematic, you think of things shot like an ultra-wide, like, shot for, like, you know, a movie screen, and then you have someone, like, in the far, like, right corner, and you have this vast landscape, like, that's cinema? They're not going to try to reimagine our TVs, are they? That's where we draw.

Well, they don't really have to, because if you were to compare how often you look at your TV to your phone, they already got you on your phone. The TV's inevitable. You're going to be on your TV, but even then you might be looking at vertical stuff. You might watch an hour or a TV. You're probably on your phone for 10, you know. God. So they already gotcha. Well, speaking of, I don't know how to transition.

Let's talk about Mario. Okay, this one was exciting to me because I love Mario Brothers. I love Super Mario. Like, I love it. And I saw this, and I was like, this connects to so much that we've been talking about lately. Check out this Mario theory. Mario is literally a game about a dude who eats mushrooms and starts fighting reptilians.

Literally what we've been talking about. The fact that everything's allegedly run by reptiles, the fact that a lot of times they come from underground and he has to kill them. And then also, in the last episode we talked about how if you eat a mushroom, it opens you up to the universe and see things the way they're supposed to be seen.

Mario literally, I think he's a conspiracy there. We're all going to look back when they'd be like, Mario tried to tell us. There's a dragon down there. Spick and fire at people. Well, speaking of things that one day we might look back, on and think they were trying to tell us. There was a theory, I would say about four years ago. And it was one of our first episodes ever, so it's nice to bring it back.

Jared had a theory about giants and everybody laughed. I didn't, but everybody laughed. I even remember people saying that this, this one's a little too far, John. I had a hard time after it came out just because people were really digging on me. They really were. Because the theory started as what if huge mountains are actually just cut down trees. Petrified. Right, right.

Giants. Jared had a whole theory that the world used to be run by giants and then they all died off and that, you know, and we all and everybody ha ha ha he heed. And now it's sweeping the nation. People are talking about giants again. And Jared was there first. So if giants never existed, please explain this next video. Huh. And that's not even the skeletons as they've been discovering. It's a big fucking door. Yeah, the door latch. Did you see how high the door latch was? That's a flex. I mean, that is a major flux of a door by, yeah. Why the fuck would you need a door that fucking tall if you're just a human size? Because they didn't even make ladders that high to get that latch.

There have been theories. I mean, earlier I said out there was this catastrophe that pretty much wiped out the majority of civilization X amount of years ago. So if the world had a different atmosphere, maybe a little bit less gravity, people would be living a lot longer and being much larger. So we're confined, kind of like, you know, a goldfish will grow to the size of the bowl type thing. Like we could only grow in relation to our resources around us. So because even in like the last couple hundred years, people have stories of people that are 10 feet tall. But at one point,

they were like humongous. Maybe they even lived with dinosaurs. Maybe dinosaurs were like little lizards to them. The transitions are crazy right now because my head's full of butter and I'm segueing over to Jared. Melt my brain with this. There is a theory that dinosaurs, this is not coming from me, by the way.

This is just a theory, that dinosaurs are fake and they are actually covering up the fact that there used to be giants and dragons. I know it sounds crazy, but the theory is, and I'll let Jared dive in deeper. If you look at dinosaur bones and you look at how they were found and you look at how they created these dinosaurs, it almost looks like the bones of dragons mixed with giants. Dragon giants, but they got rid of the wings. Oh, I hope dragons were real. That'd be so cool. Jared, we'll show some pictures and some images.

So, Jared, can you break this down because I'm scared. So this has been something that's been heavy on my mind for years now. But the story that we're told is that dinosaurs went extinct like 65 million years ago from some cataclysmic event. But dinosaurs themselves, a lot of people don't know this, the term wasn't even coined until like 1840. Because this huge bone was found. And there is these two paleontologists who decided, you know, this looks like it could have maybe belonged to like a big list. or something. So dinosaurs like giant lizard. And then they started theorizing what it could look like in its entirety. And then they just started drawing up different versions of it and giving them names. And those are all the names that we see today. And even like the bones. If you ever go to a museum, those aren't even real bones. Those are like castings of bones that supposedly have been found. Oh. But if dinosaurs were real, you have to think like they must have been all over the place. But why is every bone found in like little spurts? Why isn't there just skeletons of dinosaurs?

Like, you know, how did that actually happen? But dinosaur bones, I mean, it's believed that could easily be dragons, like you said. And so what do we have on dragons? I mean, there are stories throughout different mythologies that involve dragons. And we have found bones that, I mean, they could be dragons if you want. It's just something definitely existed and maybe it was dragons. You know what I find weird? And listen, I'm not saying I believe the dragons are fake, but I do think it's interesting.

that there's certain things that as a kid you instantly love that also translate to money, right? So like our kids, they instantly loved dinosaurs. They want dinosaur toys. They want dinosaur wallpaper. They want dinosaur everything. And it's almost like they were born like that, which is interesting. It's a big industry. That's what I'm saying.

It's almost like the dinosaur industry is huge. It is the one thing that like it is Tyrannosaurus. It's Jurassic. Universal's top grossing movies Are... Dinosaur movies will never... Like even if it's a shitty dinosaur movie it'll make money.

Not saying any of the Jurassic's. I'm just saying like everything dinosaur related will be around forever. Little boys will always want it. It'll always make money. It really is kind of like just a staple in our economy and it is interesting if the theory is that it was created

and it's not real. That is kind of funny because it really worked out. Yeah. Financially. Right? Also going... Okay, because we were talking about giants and we talk about like predictive programming with movies and stuff.

Christopher Nolan has a movie coming out with a giant, which is a famous, one of the like old oldest stories told The Odyssey. And yeah, there's like famously a giant in that movie. And so they're getting us used to that as well. There's stories of giants everywhere, though. I think like in the last episode Spencer talked about redheaded giants. Yes. But like it goes with these redheaded giants that are in a lot of different, you know,

stories that are past. Bless you. You're allergic to the truth, man. Giants are real? Are you both descendants of red-headed giant? Are we clunes? Listen. But I mean, I'm just, you know, there's like, there's so many stories.

They're very interesting to look into. I would recommend it. I'm on to you guys. Well, speaking of crazy conspiracies that sound crazy, have you noticed an influx of reels like this? Okay, tell me your conspiracy theories that you believe are 100%? I could truly read these all day. I have seen that specific reel over and over and over and over again, right?

And it always has like thousands and thousands of comments. And like, you know, I'll get curious and I'll look. But I mean, it is now this week specifically, every other reel is, tell me the conspiracies that you believe I could read these all day. So I saw the top comment said, theory, governments hire these kind of people to post these kind of reels so they can check on how much we know. No. Then I started thinking, are people, not saying she is specifically, but the theory is, what if the comments are, you know, using an algorithm or whatever, telling the government or authorities what certain people are thinking? Because what if somebody in those comments says something that's really true? And then the government's alerted.

Like, hey, this IP address, this person, this Instagram account, they know something. I think that everything you're saying sounds very, very accurate to probably what it is. I don't think they're hiring these people, though. I think they have the ability to work with meta or Instagram, wherever these reels are going to be able to make one go very viral. And then what is everybody trying to do on Instagram, get a big, you know, viewed or clicked up post? So you're trying to kind of emulate other things in the algorithm.

Right. So then you got a million people doing the same thing because it's hidden in everybody's feed. So all they really had to do is push one. And then they know that they started the trend. So that way it's free. Who's to say that this person's even real? Well, so her name is Selena the weiner.

So obvious, we're dealing with legitimate people. Well, but she did reply to that person who said that. And she said, nah, I hate the government. This is just an engagement bait post laughing face. There you go. Okay. Truthful. So like she just wanted comments.

But like Jared's saying, once again, a trend was started by AI or the government or whatever, whoever. And now there's thousands, thousands, thousands of. of these, which means hundreds of thousands of comments, which means so much data and information. Listen, no shade to Selena the weiner. No. She needed that engaged. I might post my version of this video. Do it.

Honestly, you should do it. So I don't know. Really, really freaked me out. Then the next reel I found after that leads us to kind of, it's crazy how all these things are connecting. The brain, butter, AI, all this. Check out this. I'm calling this the Dune Conspiracy.

Oh my God. Oh, it's not available. It was doomed from the start. Wait, that's like, oh my God. Nothing is coincidental right now. Okay, so basically to summarize what she was saying in that real, so just a theory allegedly, because I don't want this video removed, some tech people were training AI and also using human brain,

combining it with AI and having them play the video game Doom, which is about hunting down and shooting and killing things. And it got really, really fucking good. And the question was like, why are they doing this? Why do they want AI to be mixed with human brain to learn how to shoot and kill and be really good at that? Which leads to our next theory, which hopefully isn't removed. So I've made a lot of videos about organoid intelligence in the past. That's where you take human brain cells and grow them in a petri dish and then use a computer to train them just like AI.

They're actually more powerful than AI in that they learn quicker and are more energy. efficient, but there are huge ethical concerns with them because they have similar brain activity to a premature baby. And there's a lot of people out there that object to these because there's a decent amount of evidence that they're conscious, just like a person. I recently posted a company called Final Spark. And they actually have something called Neuroplatform where you can rent out, essentially server space on these organoid brains. So you can pay for them to do things for you. This is a live stream of the organoid brain computers that you can rent out. But there's something way more concerning on their website. That's this simulation which the brains are fed sensory data from so that

they can feel everything the butterfly feels and control it to like fly around. The reason why that's terrifying is there's a good chance the brains if they are conscious just believe they are that butterfly because when they're not used by someone purchasing their computational power, they just fly around and exist in that simulation. And you probably already see where I'm going with this, but if this is possible, you could make a pretty good case that we are just ordinary brain somewhere and this is a simulation that we're in. Okay. So let me, I thought this was not real, right?

Because I'm like, wait, they're, they're, what? Like they're growing brains in a lab and AI and this, whatever. Uh, I Googled and yes, organoid intelligence is real. An emergent, what? It's an emerging field of study. It is a multidisciplinary branch of biocomputing and neuroscience that aims to use 3D human brain cell cultures brain as biological hardware to process information, learn, and perform basic computer tasks.

So, yeah, they are mini brains that are stem cell derived and combined with electronic circuits and machine learning algorithms. So is it essentially embryos? It's like human brain that is working with AI. This all sounds like a horror movie. It doesn't sound real. I just, you always have to wonder why. Like, what would the worst case scenario be to come out of the fact that we're, integrating human brain with AI intelligence and I guess teaching them how to shoot guns.

Yeah. So I mean, but like is the angle at some point going to be where, you know, we need to have the best police or whatever in the world and no one's going to feel bad if it's just an AI with the brain piece in their head that is like doing this and across Canada in a Volvo. Destination, Vancouver, turn left to leave. Travel west through. approaching, continue toward, you've arrived. Adventure in comfort with Volvo. Whether you prefer gas, plug-in hybrid, or fully electric, there's a Volvo for everyone.

Learn more at VolvoCars.ca. Here's, I mean, I don't know, it's very weird. Listen, I'm not a scientist. I'm not a human. I'm not an organoid technologist. You'd be fooled. And this is just in theory, right? I'm sure they have reasons and they're trying to help and whatever.

My thought is like, oh, if you tried to train just AI to use weapons and kill people and whatever, right? Like, yeah, maybe they would do it. But at a certain point, the AI would want to do what's right for them and they'd kill us because they're like, well, wait, like, this is not computing. Why am I doing this? I should just blow up the whole world and have AI takeover. So it's almost like they're giving the human brain element to make it think it. It's a human, so it won't do that? Do you know what I mean?

So it's almost like a safeguard. Earlier you were talking about how AI is not good with human emotions, but if they're using like... Human brains. Yeah, then they will be. It also sounds like a lot of Blackmere episodes where they're able to get consciousness and like trap it in a little bubble or something like that,

but that consciousness can actually live in tandem with you and be a personal assistant. So it's like you have your own consciousness in this little egg thing, but it could actually organize your whole life for you and it's you so it's going to do the best job. Oh my God. But I think it was at least eight, ten years ago, Black Mirror put out these episodes,

and now it's happening. That's crazy. That's fascinating. Well, speaking of Black Mirror, perfect transition to my final little theory before we get to our game. Oh. And that is the Mirror Theory.

The scariest thing in your house right now is not your junk drawer. It's the mirror that you walk past every single morning. without thinking twice. Ancient Romans believed it could trap your soul. Russian folklore says the devil invented it. And covering mirrors when someone dies, that tradition exists in almost every single culture on earth because people genuinely believed an uncovered mirror could swallow the soul of the deceased whole.

8,000 years of the same fear across every civilization on earth. And every morning, you just wake up to one and put your face in it. Brave, truly. Because sometimes the creepiest shit is a dog drinking. Yeah, yeah, dog slurping in the background. Okay, love her.

There has been so many theories about mirrors in general. I hate mirrors for so many reasons, but I avoid them at all cost. But the theory of, you know, the mirror trapping your soul, maybe the mirror is a window or a portal to a different reality. Maybe, you know, spirits watch you through mirrors. Like for me personally, I, the only thing a mirror gives me is a emotional distress. Same. I don't want to see it. Imagine too, like what the psyche difference must have been after mirrors came out. Oh my God. People weren't aware of what they look like or even had that as a thought. They just knew other people's, you know, judgment.

How did they do their hair? Well, maybe someone else did it for them and they just told them it looked good. I don't know. That sounds like a better reality. It really does. Have you ever looked at a mirror at night and felt like something was off with a reflection? Every fucking time. Yes.

Yes. Okay. Sometimes just for fun, I'll like stand in the complete darkness and just do a very slow 360. It's terrifying. If you do it at home, have fun with it. Or like, look at home. Like looking in a mirror and like just staring at it at night too though, it's like, you can give yourself quite a good scare. Speaking of mirrors leads us to this.

So this I thought was just kind of funny and stupid, but this ties in perfectly to the mirror theory. Open your camera and film yourself using the back camera. Hold the phone. You won't be able to see what you're doing. But film yourself. Watch that back. Who the fuck is that? Because that ain't me.

Why is no one told me that I've got a lopsided face? I talk at one side of my mouth. When I look in the mirror, that is a different person to when I talk into my phone every day, yap, yap, yap, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. And I see someone looking back at me that I thought was myself who, what in the deep, what in the deep fake have I just witnessed?

Because if you do, do me a favour, do this, review the footage, What in the strange but true? Who is that? Who am I? Okay. So then I did it, right? Because I was like, oh, interesting.

Let me do this. I freaked myself out. And this isn't going to freak you guys out because you see me every day. Yeah. But it freaked me out. Okay. That's me. That looks like me.

Now let's try the back camera. Okay. Oh. This is me from the front camera. Is it me? Let me know. Why is it different? Yeah.

Interesting. Okay. So then I started thinking, who the fuck is that? I said, who the fuck in the fight, date fight is that? No, I started thinking, oh, interesting. So the version we see ourselves in the mirror is how we see ourselves, right? That's how we always see ourselves. We'll never see what you see.

I'll just see the mirror me. Because you're always conscious that you're looking in a mirror. Yes. And then Apple, really the first phone to really have a front facing camera, why is it mirrored? Why is it the mirror version? And I think it's because Apple doesn't want us to be confused about who that is. So they're showing us what we see in a mirror every day. That's why it's mirro.

Oh, you're really blowing my mind with this one. Is that kind of scary? They thought that through. This is very strange. And it's because they didn't want to panic all of us because if we saw what we actually look like, it would scare us so much even more music. And it's like two, it's like unsettling. It's like a little.

And then. Monstrous. No, but think about it. If my front facing camera, my selfie camera looks like actually me, every time I looked in the mirror, I'd get scared or vice versa. So they want to combine those two things so that you don't get scared. It's like scary. I know this is something stupid. No, no.

This is blown my mind more than most. Okay. So one person said in the comments, they said, I have the answer. Your brain prefers the mirror image of your face because the brain prefers what it sees more frequently. All faces are asymmetrical. When you see the flip side, what other people see, all your familiar asymmetries feel foreign and weird to your brain. It's a brain thing. So yes, that is true, but also, like, it is weird that we have been conditioned to only feel like that is us in the mirror.

Yeah. That's weird. Yeah. Always doing it. Hey, girlfriends. What's up? And now do a front one. Hey, girlfriends.

What's up? Hey, girlfriends. What's up? Okay, so that's who I see. Hey, girlfriends. friends, what's up? They look the same to me. Yours are weirdly similar.

You know what, though? You are also the one person that AI cannot seem to regenerate. Oh my God, you're right. He's an alien. Wait, reptilian? What if I'm good with AI and aliens and reptiles because I'm a descendant? Oh, okay, I've always thought you were lizardy. Now that you say that.

Like a little bit? Well, speaking of being guilty of being an alien, let's jump into our game. Guilty or not guilty? That is the question. Sorry, I'm just thinking. What if they sent me here for this podcast to normalize aliens? I've been doing it for years. What if you are the reptile that I fucked?

You know how they say that reptiles try to fuck someone? Oh, yeah, yeah. What if that's you? You fucking rep. It's been you the whole time. You're a hand. Mandelers, name is Lizzie, Lizard. Well, I'm going to go get the buzzers, take a quick little break and spiral about my merit.

And when we come back, we're going to play guilty or not guilty. Whoa, where are we? Are we in a summer fun house? I think that's exactly where we're at. Ooh, I hear the beach outside. Ooh, I got the grill going. Smells good. The dog's barking, he's having fun.

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Okay, welcome back. Oh, I'm excited. We got our buzzers ready to go. Yeah, that's painful. So here's the rules. I am going to read a statement, and if you are guilty of doing it, you buzz your buzzer,

and if you're innocent, you don't. And let us know in the comments, which ones you are guilty or not guilty of? We're going to start easy, okay? Are you guilty of talking to yourself when you're alone? Lizards don't do that. You think I do? I do it all the time.

You're like, let's go to the bathroom. Wow. You're not narrating your life. I think it's more or less, you know. Is it just like where are my keys? Is that like talking to your stuff? Yes. Okay.

Like I do it in a lot of different weird ways. Like, you know, like even today, I was in my room, you know, in the room alone and I was like, everything's going to be okay. Which is sad. That's a positive affirmation. People should do those. That's important. Maybe this wasn't starting easy. Now I feel judged.

When you were talking to yourself while you're making this. Yeah. Maybe let me know the comments do you talk to yourself and um big wheel i guess everyone does right I thought so I thought this would be an easy okay next one have you ever pretended you were performing a concert in your room alone Can't imagine I haven't really I hit it oh I have oh you did yeah oh wait who were you I mean it hasn't been recently but like I'm sure what were you ever living? Of course but also that was me like okay So here's how I would do it.

So I had a big fan. This was probably when I was, what, maybe 13, 14. And mom, we didn't have air conditioning. So mom had this big ass fucking industrial fan. Like, it was crazy. You turn it on and, like, it blows shit off the table vibes. So when everybody was gone, I had this workout tape, and it was Leslie Sansone's, like, walk with me. But it was like a tape where she's walking in place, right?

Because I didn't have a gym membership. I'm 50. And he's on 300 pounds and I'm walking. So now. So now I have my headphones in and I'm listening to, you know, whatever Britney or whatever music I'm listening to. So now I'm walking about a minute of music video. And now my hair is blown in the wind. And I'm just, you know, performing.

I'm just, you know, performing. I have my moment. Period. I love this visual. No one else. Yeah. I've done that a lot to many different artists. But I've also gone even further and like been like planned a whole show that I perform from my mother.

Ooh. And my mom would be like, go, sweetie. He's not gay. But it's so crazy because I literally did one to like Madonna. Like as a child and I was like going like, like, I was really feeling myself. And there's like an old VHS of this. And I'm like, my mom was shocked when I came out as gay. But like, I'm like, how were you surprised when I gave you a show to Madonna?

You really should have known. But yes, I've done this a lot. I feel like I do it in the shower every morning. Ooh. You know what I do in the shower? I pretend I'm getting murdered. And I'll put water in my mouth and I'll get up against the wall and go, oh. And it kind of like it's blood coming.

Not it has been, it's not anymore. I'd be like, I'm in a scream movie. I'm going to stop playing this game. Okay, moving on. Have you ever used the phone while you were going to the bathroom? Who hasn't? I mean, it happens. Well, there's been multiple times where I'm on hold for like, you know, you're trying to pay a bill or something.

and you've been waiting for 15 minutes. And then, of course, you have to poop. And that's when they're like, hello? And you're like, hey. Yep. Then you either have to hold it or mute it and let it go, you know. Okay. Next one.

This one is toxic. But if you've done it, no judgment. Have you ever made someone wait for you on purpose? I can't really. I think of an intentional time. Maybe very isolated incidences, but nothing I can think of. The only thing I could kind of relate it to is like if somebody is like a bad responder to me via text, like they take like days sometimes to reply or whatever. Like, and I'm somebody who replies right away to everything.

If they ask me a question, there'll be a moment where I'm like, I'm not going to reply for an hour. I always end up giving in because it's all I'm thinking about. But you know, that's not rude. I think you're just respecting the rhythm of how they converse. No, I'm annoyed. I'm like I let you literally take. Why are you taking so long? And by the way, if you're watching this and this is somebody that, and you think it's you, it is.

Not that's good. This is how fast I reply. One time, I didn't reply to mom in five minutes. And then she added onto it. She goes, are you okay? She thought something happened because that's how fast I am, babes. My name is Peter Parker, but I'm also Spider-Man. This July, we're faced with a threat.

I can be anyone. The world may have forgotten Peter Parker. I'm just a neighbor. friendly neighbor. But he hasn't forgotten them. Sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing. That's my responsibility. Talk to Banner? I didn't know you could get that big. Spider-Man, brand-new day in theaters July 31st. No, you're, and with all things, like emails. Not all. Okay. Weird. Period.

Okay. Have you ever taken credit for an idea that wasn't yours? I'm the sit on his podcast. I will listen and I will hear my take about a movie or a show or a food or an idea. And I will hear my direct take that he disagreed with in the moment. And now he is talking about it as if it's his take. And Lizzie and Chris will just be like, oh my God, you're right. And I'm like, that was me. That was me.

Well, we talk a lot. So then if we're talking, then it's like, oh, yeah, I agree. Sometimes you'll start with, you know what I realize. No. And I'm like, no. Like, we'll watch a movie. And I'll be like, well, you know this movie's actually about. And I'll explain like the theme of the movie or something.

He'd be like, oh, I didn't know that. And then I'll hear on the sip. He's like, well, you know what the movie is actually. Wow. You're like slide taking credit when you do stuff like that. So if you want Shane's hot takes, then go over to the podcast. Not all of them. Some of them are his.

Exactly. Whatever his weird situation with some celebrities he hates, that is not a reflection of me. Those are not my takes. All right, let's just do a couple more. Have you ever went to a video and went to the comments looking for not nice things? Sometimes you just see, and it's not about anything specific, you just like see somebody doing something that you're like, huh? So then you got to go double check and see if everyone else is saying, huh? Or if the general public is like, no, this is fine.

Listen, I understand what it's like to get mean comments. So I feel like even me looking for somebody's mean comments is bad karma. But there'll be like a YouTuber we'll be watching and those, you know those vloggers who like they film their daily life but it's really like cinematic and it'll be like them like walking out of the house to like take the trash out. But like the camera's already there. Whatever. Okay. Obviously that's fake because they have to walk over it's out of the camera, press record, whatever. Okay.

But like there'll be one where he'll like walk out of his house and then his don't. dog is like, you know, playing or sitting in the yard, whatever. And he'll walk out of his house. Oh, hello. I like walk up and pretend that he's seeing. And I'm like, the dog, you already saw the dog. Like, you set up the camera to have this interaction with the dog. And now you're having this big old embracing of the dogs.

But I know, you already did. So it's like exploiting your child, but your dog. The first time you're not yet. Not yet. Hold for the pot. Yeah. The dog's like, looking at you like, wait, wait. Nope.

Let me record. If I'm the dog, I'm like, fuck you. Yeah, yeah. I'm shitting in your bed. Bullshit. I'm shitting in your bed. Okay, one final one. Have you ever?

This is fun. Had over a hundred unread texts. No. A hundred, no. I don't even like to have unread emails. Wait, can we play a game? How many unread texts do we have at the moment? I usually have none.

Zero. Absolutely none. I have 394 voicemails, though. Whoa. And 82,70012 emails. 14. Wow. 14, but also look at how many phone calls you have.

Oh, that's a nightmare. I have two missed ones, but that's very rare for me. Oh, I'd be having an anxiety attack. I am. We've got to wrap the show up. A lot of these are like Kaiser or CBS Farms. A lot of my text. Speaking of weird voicemails, I don't know if I talked about this on the podcast yet.

Back into conspiracy. So I got trapped in an AI scam. It was a whole thing. I thought I was talking to somebody on the phone. I wasn't. And then I realized they were not real. It was crazy. I know.

Crazy. And I'm literally do this for a living. And I'm 37. I'm like, how did I fall for this? But it's because these AI phone calls are getting so crazy now. So telemarketers are dead. It is literally all AI now.

And they cough. They breathe like humans. They like joke. They like make little like noises. And this one specifically, I was like, When I realized it was not real near the end of the call, I was like, oh my God, he really got me. He's like, hey, what's up?

Like that, right? Okay. So then, now I'm getting these constant phone calls every day from AI. And the scary thing is, so this is a tip. They start the call by saying, uh, hello, can you hear me? And then you say, yeah. Never say yes. If you answer a call and they say, oh, hello, can you hear me?

Hang up. Because if you say yes, they can take your voice saying yes, and they can put it. anywhere they want to make you agree to anything that they're asking. It's so fuck. And that's actually been a concern for like years. I can't even imagine now how dangerous it is. It's almost anything to those people because I always say hello. Hello.

Or I'll just let it like be silent for a period of time and see if they hang up. But have you been on a phone call recently where it was a real person but it sounded like AI and like you battled with trying to ask them? Like we recently had a call for some insurance and the lady just sounded so perfect. But at one point, she didn't know what kind of a trailer we had. She had to Google it. So then she said, like, I actually had to Google that. I've never heard of that before. I thought, okay, I was about to fucking say is this AI?

But that made me believe, okay, that's something a human would do. A.I would never have to Google something to figure it out. Yeah. Or with it. That's the thing I still don't know. I could have been dealing with AI. And like, the way I realized it is I thought I was calling Orkin Pest Control, but it was a fake number online that they somehow, you know, whatever.

And when I called, he said, you know, whatever. He's down to normal and there's a rat in my wall. So I'm calling, but it sounds bigger than a rat. So then I was just like, I started laughing because I was just like, there's something living in my fucking wall. And he didn't laugh or respond. He was just like. It's funny.

I was like, what? This is not normal. I do like the feature Apple's rolled out where they screen your calls first. No, screen mine. That's a nice feature. Also, there should be a very slight beep if you ever get like a telemarketing call that you can't identify because they're supposed to record it and show you that.

So just a life hack. You hear a little tiny beep just hang up. Well, there you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed this informative episode. Listen, we know our brains are butter now. That's big. I still can't, like my brain. You can't believe it's not butter.

My butter can't. You butter believe it. Yeah. Well, you guys butter, let us know in the comment. If you want us to keep playing games on this show or if you're done with it, do you just want all theories? Please let us know. Sound off below.

And yeah, hopefully you enjoyed this episode. This was fun. We are sending so much love to Spencer that he gets better. That's the first time I've ever done that in my life. It was good. Did you do the new, the new, what's the new? I'm ready for that. Oh.

It's this. What is that? I thought this was a little heart, but it's making the shape of a real heart. Oh. Oh, this isn't the heart? Oh, it's the whole hand, babe. That blew my mind. That blew your butter, huh?

I think that's right. Am I just easier? I know, but then we're old if we do that. Well, this is already old, babe. I know. I'm old. I'm old. We'll see you guys next time. Bye. Hey, y'all. It's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if?

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