The Shane Dawson Podcast - The Reptilian Conspiracy Theory

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

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and he's talking about his experience with what he thought could have been a reptile person. Take it, make a fat what you will, that's what happened. Crazy, right? That's crazy. I feel kind of, not sick, but it's like allergies. But I never get allergies, but it's like this year specifically, it's crazy. Oh, was that performative? You freak?

Ryland was so worried. I literally said to you, I was like, oh, I'm getting sick, but then I never got a store 30. Our house either has mold or we're dying of new. causes. But before we get into that, because let me just say, oh, good morning. This is the most controversial conspiracy, I think maybe ever. And we, I have not talked about it specifically in our podcast because I'm afraid of getting demonetized. But I think if we give enough disclaimers, it should be okay. This might be the first one I've ever gotten invested in to a point where I've done like hours of research on this in the past day. That's really saying something because you

never care about them now. We're all very impressed. Yes. But, Before we get to that, hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. Listen, I'm going to be totally honest. The last episode where we kind of tried this whole new thing, I'm posting it tomorrow. Like, in real time, it's not out yet. So we don't know if you guys liked it or not. We really hope. You really hope you liked it.

So if you hated it and you do not want us to do this again, next time we won't. But we're doing it again today. So I'm so sorry. But can I just say, like, I loved it. I had so much fun. and watching the episode back and like it felt like something I've been missing for a long time, which is talking about conspiracies and having conversations that get deeper and more, you know, real and talking about stuff that I'm like nervous to talk about.

Like it felt exciting to me. So I hope you guys liked it. And yeah, let's see if we can try it again. Capture that magic again. Capture that magic. How are you guys doing? Are you sick? Do you have allergies?

My allergies have been bad. And ironically, I had that nasal surgery, so they shouldn't be bad at all. But I think today is the first time I've noticed. I don't know if you guys get it, but it's like this little tickle around right here in your nose. It feels like this emptiness when you breathe in. I started feeling that earlier. So I might be sick. I could go.

I might have something. Isn't I seeing you guys? You're sick. Is everyone here just sick? Is that what's happening? I love how Riley's like joking, but serious. It's so brutal because I'm. always had really bad allergies, like since I was a kid till now, but now they're so bad

that I carry around like flones, eye drops, like claritin, like several things, just for all that, because I'm in pain and itchy all the time, 24-7. I will say, I've never had allergies. I don't think, same, ever. And I, there's a theory. And that theory now I'm noticing is happening a lot. And I'm like, uh, is this have to do with that? But before we get into that, I need to say this, because once again,

I don't enjoy saying I was right. But fucking Pokemon Go! I called that shit in 2017, 2018. I don't know. I made a video and it was supposed to be kind of funny. And it was about how Pokemon Go is actually just collecting all of our data and watching what we're doing and all these things. And people were just like, oh, that's so funny.

And I was like, I know right. Cut to now. It has been revealed. 143 million people thought they were just catching Pokemon for eight years. They were actually training one of the biggest. biggest AI maps ever with over 30 billion images. The company, Niantic, just revealed that the photos and AR scans collected through Pokemon Go have created the largest real world visual database ever. So people weren't just walking around and playing it, you know, on their phones.

They were actually scanning landmarks, storefronts, parks, sidewalks from every single angle at every time of day in every weather condition ever. Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. And it documented the physical world at a scale that no mapping company has ever been able to do with typical vehicles with a camera on them. Why was all of this data being collected by all of us, you know, happy Pokemon Go players? While all of that data was being collected to train a new fleet of Coco's. The robot delivery. Spencer's biggest pet. They literally are my biggest enemy.

I hate them so much. I hate those little fucking things. I'm so unnecessarily mad about this. This fucking company got all these people out there, get their steps in, play a Pokemon Go literally as free labor to train all of their new AI delivery bots. Like that is so genius, but crazy. Yes, Ryland?

Okay, thank you. I've been waiting. No, you have not. You had her hand up for like eight seconds. I have a question. Was AI around when Pokemon Go is popular? Or did they collect all this data? and sell to the highest bidder.

That is interesting. Thank you. I mean, every app, and this is just a theory, but every app, like remember, I don't know if we left it in the episode, but we talked about that app, Be Real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It turned out to, you know, maybe be collecting data as well, just a theory. But like, you know, so you could just see what the other person sees and what you see at the same time.

Yeah, whatever they want. Right. And then I think that app got sold to a company for all that data. I think every app, every game, even if they're starting it because they want to be a game, the real money is in the data. And I think they know that. Where are my gloves? Come on, heat.

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Just a theory. So anytime you see a new popular app or game or social media or network or whatever, there is people behind the scenes being like, well, how are we going to make money from this? Because it's not ads. Oh, it's data. I think what I always found interesting is back in the day when you would walk through a mall, there would always be a car and a little pat of paper where you could fill out your information to potentially win that car.

But the thing is, you feel like that. out that card made that card worth like $10 to people buying lead generation. Yeah. So if they just got a couple thousand people to fill this out, it would easily pay for the car. But one, we don't know if anyone actually won, but all that was was data entry for them. And then they would then sell the data to all these companies that, you know, could use it. So it's been around for a while, but it's very genius this Pokemon Go situation. Well, and I don't know.

I don't know if it's the same as before with like the car situation entering your information. but I know now we were in Ventura a few weeks ago or maybe a month ago and we saw a big group of people and we're like well this is weird I wonder what they're doing because then they just started leaving all together and so what did we do well we followed them because we were curious what are they doing right because they were all nobody was talking it was silent but everyone was on their phone but it was a huge group of people and we asked them like what are you guys doing they're like oh we're playing Pokemon Go but they were so focused and it's crazy how any but he would be curious and then just join it,

you know, like not knowing like, they're collecting all this information. Yeah, one guy literally said, I've been waiting for six hours and it's just up the street at the post office. So like whatever Pokemon they were looking for was like right there and they were there for six hours. When I was really playing the game,

I would do insane things. Like I'd end up in like alleys at like 3 a.m. And like there'd be someone else in an alley and no part of me was like, I'm going to get jumped right now. I'm like they're also playing Pokemon Go. And they were thankfully. But I could have died.

Like I ended up in the way. worse situations because of this game. But look at all the delivery bots you help. Yeah, thank God those little Coco bots. I will say this is also an interesting rabbit hole that means Spencer we're talking about. So we've been training AI for years. We just didn't know it. Literally everything you've posted online has now been put into the system of AI.

Literally every single picture, everything has taught AI more and more about humans, how we operate, how we think, how our brains work, what we're afraid of, what we enjoy, whatever. Captcha's. So you know those little captions before you go into a website or sign in and it's like make you know show us that you're not a robot Show us you're humans. Oh, I hate them. I always fell those tests well You failed them. Yes. Well, it's not even about so okay, you know sometimes it'll be like show us where the bus is And it'll be a bunch of pictures and I'm like okay wait but that's that's like not technically a bus But it's what I mean so that I have common sense and I don't click but it's not a wrong answer

They want to see you thinking and they want to see your mouse going around and being like, oh, maybe, maybe not. That's the point, right? And when you do that, it knows, oh, this is a human because an AI would just go do, do, do, do, do. But there's a theory. Actually, is it confirmed now? Yeah, it's a real thing.

So basically, yeah, we've been training. They've been using it to train AI for like years and years and years. And it's like, well, if you think about it, the AI is so strong now. Why are we still doing? An AI could easily pass that test. Like chat sheet, we could easily do that. test and pass it now. And the only reason we're still doing it. We're idiots. Well, the guy, so the guy who founded it,

I'm trying to find it in 2009. But the guy who found it, he found it in 2009. And even he was quoted saying, like, this has the potential to be, like, one of the biggest free, like, data harvesting, like, things in the world. Like, they're, because we're just seeing how humans interact with something over and over and over again for free labor. But you said that you don't have to click exactly on the right bus. So how's Ryan Leland failing these? That is that different question, I think. I literally 90% of the time fail. And I'm like, I've looked at all of the squares.

I fucking hate those things. That's me with the little. I have never encountered something that Drive Spencer more crazy than those robots. I think, guys, this is just a PSA. If you see those robots kick it over, flip, beat it up. There was just a video the other day, like before this, of Chicago was having issues where the robots are driving through bus like stations because they don't see. the glass. And so there's just

videos of them just driving through glass. The glass shatters and the robot like stops like oh shit, what did I just do? And they're causing the city like thousands of dollars. Because these, you know, people that are super distracted playing Pokemon Go probably just walk right into glass. That's why it is. You guys got to find people that aren't as

distracted. That's probably why the meta glasses are so big right now. That's probably a better way of collecting all that information. Yeah. And they don't walk into glass. Okay. So this next thing, when we talked about the celebrity clones. It got very scary and I. It's not like he said celebrity clones. We were talking about the new fragrances. Beyonce's new thing that's fire.

No, the clones, right? So I started having nightmares about it. There was something about that specific segment that really fucked me up. And then Instagram knowing that it would fuck me up, sent me this in my algorithm. So you guys know Jamie Fox. He was in the hospital for a while and it was kind of like mysterious. Nobody knew what was happening. Everybody was really scared for him. So this is an interview where he talked about that experience. And just take a look.

I snuck my phone because I didn't know what the outside world was saying. And so I snuck my phone to see what people were saying. I've just been in this hospital. And I couldn't get my mind around that I had a stroke. I'm in fucking perfect shape. The clone shit threw me. Yes. When they said I was a clone, that made me flip in the hospital.

That's it. These motherfuckers are trying to clobaccoers. I didn't have a stroke. So I'm sitting in my, I'm sitting in the hospital bed like these bitch ass, and then I saw me walk into my room, but I'm white, so I see the white, white me. But he had a Caesar too, just like you? Not all that, the white me.

And I'm like, and I'm trying to get their attention. I said, what's up, Fox? I said, I know what's up. You're trying to clone me, my fuck. I saw the white clone. And I know why you're trying to clone me. And make me white, because I'll sell better overseas and I'm sitting in this motherfucker.

I'm sitting in this motherfucker. I'm thinking I'm a clone. And when the psychiatrist says, are you all right? And I says, am I all right or am I all white? I saw what happened. I saw a motherfucker you trying to get the white motherfucking fucking Jamie Fox and it ain't going to happen. So he just calmly goes, I think we're going to lower your dosage. Okay.

Wow. Let me just say this. That's incredible. First of all, love Jamie Fox. Let me just say this. The fact that his mind. jumped to that when you're that big of a star and you have that much, you know, big of teams and you have all these things and you're jumping right to that. That's just very interesting to me.

I don't know. That's really scary actually. Right? Yeah. Because I would never jump to that. Well, didn't people also think he was like poisoned or something? Like like there was some suspicion about like if someone tried to get him. Like there was, I just remember there being stuff like how did he get in there? Like he was saying like, I was perfectly healthy. I just had a stroke. It's like I know that can happen. And I remember reading like the headlines about that is, because a lot of people were saying, like, they wouldn't give any information out. Yeah, exactly. I don't even know if at first even said he had a stroke.

It was just like Jamie Foxx's in the hospital. Yeah, like a medical condition. And so I think that's kind of what probably started all these, like, rumors or possibility of things happening. And it's scary. There's this movie called The Island from like 2008, I think. It was a Michael Bay movie, Scarlett Johansson. And it's about all of these people living in this, like, really cool, futuristic hotel. I love that movie.

Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. And they all think that, like, you know, they're all in this, like, hotel basically living. And every week there's a raffle. And if they win the raffle, they make it to the island. They get out of the hotel. They get to go to the island. But the island is actually they're, they are clones. They don't know it. And when they go to the island, it's because their owner, the person that, you know, needs an organ or something. Oh, yeah. I've read a book like this, too. Yeah. So it's like one of the characters Michael Clark Duncan played. He was like actually the clone of the famous football player. He didn't know that. And he woke up in the middle of surgery and he saw that he was being, you know, worked on. And they were taking his organs out. It was this whole thing. And the whole idea was the rich, powerful people have clones for their medical, you know, whenever they need something. That fucked me up because I'm like, okay, a lot of these things that we see in movies that we, you know, know, talk about that end up kind of coming true or hiding in plain sight. The fact that he, Jamie Fox went right to that, like, it's just very, like.

Well, especially if he ends up in the hospital being like, why am I in the hospital? Can you imagine like, like, laying in the hospital and then being like, are they cloning me? Like, I can't even. My brain. And then it was like, you're going crazy. You're going crazy. Yeah, we need the psychiatrist in here. I mean, listen, I don't think they were cloning him.

I don't think that's what was happening. But it is interesting that he went to that. place. Speaking of clones, there's another conspiracy over the years that I've always thought was, you know, crazy and like, I don't know. So I guess let's get into our ridiculous, right? Reptiles. Okay. We've talked about it before. The idea that there is a community of reptilian people that live underground. Although I did see this. This is a side note. Somebody was like, oh, the ninja turtles. Did you see that? It's like the teenage ninja turtles is actually like. Lizard people?

Yes, and they live underground in the sewers. I was like, okay. It was too much. I was like, this one's ruining my childhood. I wanted in when I was a kid. I was trying to pull up the gutters. You're trying to go into the sewers? Yeah, I wanted to be a lizard person.

Whoa. So that's like brainwashing people to want to be. Oh no, my mom has pictures of me literally like, I need it. You didn't watch the teenage mutant ninja turtles? No, yes, I didn't want to live in a gutter. You didn't want to see what was. was down there. So the idea of reptiles actually, you know, being reptiles undercover in human suits and all

that stuff. Very scary, right? Then I didn't even search it. I was just thinking about it. And then the fucking algorithm started sending me shit. And I was like, first, this is an interview with Robbie Williams. He's a famous singer in the UK. And he's talking about his experience with what he thought could have been a reptile person.

Take of this. What do you like? Yeah. I was in bed with a woman. And that's it. That's the end of my story. I was in bed. I was in bed with a woman, right?

I'm lying on the pillow and I'm looking at her face, right? Her face turned into what I could only describe as a reptilian. My face went, oh, my God. She looks at me and she says, I'm not a reptilian. Boom. Take it, make if that what you will, that's what happened. Okay. Crazy, right?

What? That's crazy. So he's about sex with someone. They look like reptile. Then I see this clip of Britney Spears. I went with this one guy and he just, like, he looked like a lizard. So scared. I can't say this.

I'm like, oh my God. Holy shit, he looks just like a lizard. And it was really bad. So you just, so you just left? Wow. The same scenario in bed with someone and then you turn and they look like a fucking lizard. That's crazy, right? So that must be like a weak spot for reptilians.

I mean, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, I believe it was on Howard Stern, but he went into this whole story. He said it happened to him twice where he was in bed with a woman and they were in the act. And then he looked up at her and her face started shifting and it started looking like a reptile. Saw a transformation that I can't explain. The person transformed into. something other than human. Yes. Imagine you're doing something and suddenly you turn around and there's somebody else standing there. But there's a guy who did a very deep dive and a bunch of research. He talked to people in the music industry, people from Chicago, which is where Billy Corgan is from,

and where this happened at. So like, there's a lot that kind of goes towards that being the truth, but it's just been shut down completely. My question about the reptile thing is, why is it always a celebrity is in bed and then they find out the person's a reptile because that story has not just those two I've heard I was looking it out it must be a weak spot or is it like some sort of initiation or something like if you're a reptile person right do they this is all theory by the way if you're a reptile person that's crazy but I didn't say right in right into the budd ridiculous is it spreadable now is Billy a reptile now is Brittany a reptile it's like is the point of having sex with a celebrity if you're a reptile person is it like what is the purpose to make them a reptile or to

what's energy harvesting you're like harvesting their energy because during sex there's a transference of energy and like it's something that lives within you now so it could be that see i was wondering if it was yeah like the sensation of when you're intimate the sensation that you get from that and then at the end almost showing like being dominant and showing your true self after because that's very vulnerable. Whoa. Jesus. This place looks familiar.

I've been here before. That's right. We're back in the other ad mention. I see a sponsor. Please don't go anywhere, guys. Today's episode is sponsored by Seekek. Yes, if you don't already know, Seek is a number one rated ticketing app with over 35 million downloads.

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Before we get into it, I'm going to read a disclaimer. So we're going to talk about the theory of chemtrails. Okay, before we get into it, let me just say this. Scientists, aviation experts, and atmospheric researchers say that they are not chemtrails. They are called con trails. And they are made from water vapor that freezes into ice crystals. The patterns in the sky come from busy, structured flight paths. They are not spraying anything into the air.

There's no credible evidence of a large-scale chemical spraying program like the theories, claim. So that is one of the reasons I've never, I think I've mentioned chemtrails years ago, because it is one of the most famous conspiracies ever, right? But I always kind of like wrote it off as like, eh, I don't know, whatever. Once again, I don't believe this is real, but I think it's still interesting to talk about. So then I started getting allergies for the first time in the whole life. And I was like, okay, this is weird. Do we have mold? Like what's going on? Ryland starts getting these crazy allergies. Probably has nothing, okay, no, sorry. Well, I'm just going to say, probably has nothing to do with it being 100 degrees outside and 66 inside.

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The stairs behind him He farted I was like Oh another Kemp Trail It was Elon We used to call that crop dusting back in the day Sorry you have to I was like oh

Of course you do Anyways Back to the serious So then I'm on Instagram And I swear It's like, I mean, we already know that our phones are listening to our fucking mind and our brain waves. We don't have to say or type anything. I open my phone.

First thing I see is a reel from Big Boy from Outcast. And he posted this. Look at this bullshit. That's the whole video. Look at this bullshit. Look at all that bullshit. Okay. So then now my algorithm is just swarmed with it.

So we can just go through a few of these. I mean. Are we kidding? Is this a joke? How about that? Look at that. Gorgeous. Gorgeous.

Just aluminum to the dome. Aluminum to the dome. Yeah, aluminum to the dome. So there's hundreds of videos, like those. It was just every video. I even sent Spencer a video because I literally walked outside. Yeah, I walked outside and I was just like, I have quite a few that are sending me pictures.

I mean, I know this isn't a new thing, and I know it probably is just airplanes and stuff, but like, I feel like in the last few months, it's gotten fucking crazy. Has this always been going on above our heads and we've just never realized it? Like, I want to look at like sky on my phone

from 10 years ago and see if it's the same, or is there an uptick in this? Oh, yeah, I was on vacation. Like, we were on our 10-year anniversary, and I just, like, looked up and I was like, in the X. That picture is kind of hard, though. X marks the spa. So then I started looking into it because I was like, okay, I know that basic idea, right?

The idea is that they are spraying chemicals to make us sick, to kill us for population control. Like that is the theory. But then I was like, what are they actually spraying? Where is this theory actually coming from? So then I started watching these videos of people talking about geoengineering. Geoengineering is a real thing. There has been testimony in front of the United Nations. people like Bill Gates means spraying chemicals out of airplanes in our skies.

Things like aluminum and barium that are toxic. And what is the purpose? To dim the sun. One of the sources of all life on the planet, they want to dim the sun. Aluminum is toxic to all life forms. It has no biological function use, anything. And it's neurotoxic. They are spraying neurotoxins on us that we can't avoid,

that then go into our crops that are taken up in our rivers and streams. So here's the thing. Once again, this is just a theory. I'm not saying I believe any of this. But I do want to dive into it a little bit and see what is the theory? Because is this something that in 20 years we're going to look back at it? Remember when everybody thought it was crazy? And then we're going to be like, but actually. Contrails are definitely real. I mean, you could look into it. And just to throw out a theoretical here. What people are theorizing is infertility. Like you can look up Roundup. I mean, Roundup was put on like everything by just by just by, by, by, by people are theorizing. Santos and you know now that's obviously illegal and there's a huge class action lawsuit billions of dollars but so what chem trails con trails are what they're saying it is is have

you guys heard of cloud seating yeah I was just doing that up so cloud seeding a lot of people weren't aware of it until the Olympics in 2008 where in Beijing it looked like it was going to rain during the ceremonies and China spends 300 million dollars a year on weather modification research. And they're able to figure out that if you spray silver in clouds, it'll actually cause the rain to dissipate and fall faster. So what we do is, and a lot of it is saying like, you know, well, it's for farmers because their crops need extra rainfall. So the way a cloud works is a cloud is a bunch of water crystals. But unless they get close enough to each other or heavy enough, they're not going to fall and they just remain clouds. So what they do,

is they fly through these clouds and they disperse silver which acts as a molecule for the water to bond to, it becomes heavier and then the rain falls. And that's that happened? And that's exactly. It's illegal.

That's legal. But Tennessee last year, or no, 2004 actually banned it. So it's illegal in Tennessee. Right now it's on the bill for Florida and 12 other states. So all of these states are actively trying to ban something that at the same time,

the other states are saying doesn't exist. And even when you hear experts talk about it, it's very conflicting. But silver and a, does have a lethal dose. So it's crazy that they'll tell you it's for farmers because they need to have water for their crops. But they're poisoning me of water that's going. So it is like there's people that are in the Air Force.

I believe they started this in like the 60s or something with cloud seating and weather modification. But it's funny because there are pilots that when you ask them, about chemtrails, if it's real, they'll say, no, well, I was actually in rain modification, and we used to go through and spray the silver and shit, or they do either silver and a little dry ice or sodium chloride, and this is put into the clouds in order to make it rain.

But it's like, so you're telling me you literally put chemicals in the sky. You're literally doing it. But it doesn't exist. So it's very weird. Right. I think there are a lot of motives, which brings me to my next theory, which I, and I'm not trying to shit on any of these people, right? I don't think it's their fault.

I'm not saying it's them specifically. But has anybody noticed that Gen Z is now making smoking cool again? Yeah. Okay. It's everywhere. TikTok, Instagram, like the new thing is cigarettes, cigarettes, right? So it's like big celebrities, all smoking cigarettes. But what really got me was this picture of Kylie Jenner on Vanity Fair.

Wow. Smoking a cigarette, which by the way, I can't even show that. I was told in my YouTube because I looked into it. Wait, what? You cannot even show a cigarette in a YouTube video. It'll get to monetize. Wait, what? Can't show it in a thumbnail.

You can't show it in a video. Like, it is literally, you can't have cigarette commercials on TV. Like, cigarettes have been banned by advertising for years. But now with Gen Z, it's everywhere. Because I always want to do the opposite of what we're doing. And we drink and things smoking, well, we know smoking's bad. And they're like, well, our parents are lame. Let's do the exact opposite.

I think that's a big part of it. But is it also being pushed. by companies who fund a lot of these things because it's like, well, if Gen Z is not drinking, what are they doing that's going to, you know, whatever? Oh, smoking. Let's have the biggest Gen Z celebrities

constantly promoting cigarettes on all their social media's and magazines. And I don't even think they know that they're being used like that. This is all a theory about it. I mean, big tobacco is one of the largest entities on the planet. Like, I was in the vape space

or the e-cigarette space for quite a while. and there was constant push by big tobacco to try to discredit vaping any way they could, telling you it's going to give you all these diseases. Like a couple years back, there was something called Vapgate where a bunch of people got this lung disease. Oh yeah. And what it was is because I worked in multiple facets of the industry is THC vapes. People were trying to find ways to cut the product. And companies that had no moral compass because they're just trying to make a dollar, cut it with something called vitamin E acetate, which when

vaped, it never actually dries. It stays like a liquidy, like, you know, mucusy substance in your lungs. So I think like 50 people or so ended up contracting this disease called popcorn lungs. But big tobacco took it and ran with it and said it's all vaping products because they were losing billions of dollars a year. Like it costs probably two cents to make a pack of cigarettes. And have you seen the pack of cigarette pricing lately? At one point I smoked in life and I think I paid $3 for a pack

and we all complained about it. Now it's like over $10 for a pack. So think about the profit margins. So I mean, they're trying to get it cool as fast as possible they can with the new generation because it's been deemed as that's gross.

Like it just reminds me of how my grandpa smelled. So now to see Kylie Jenner or whoever else is doing it, it's like the hive reptilian mind is like, well now if I do it, I'm somewhere like, like Kylie Jenner now, you know? So it's all, it's all based on on the industry behind it, which I mean, Big Tobacco is also one of the largest lobbyist in this country, which is basically

who gets bills written. But the truth to you is that there's so many people who've had experiences or who know people who've had experiences of like, well, I smoked for a little bit and then like I was so, I was able to stop right away. Like it's not a big deal. I was just, you know, young. But it's like not everybody's like that. Like this is addicting to the point where like you're not going to be able to stop and what is a long-term effect really going to do for you? Like, it's scary the mindset that you have when you're younger. I'll also say just like being around people in that vibe more. It's like it's definitely super common now if you go out, everyone smokes.

And there's even because I can't because of my heart. There's definitely times I've been like, damn. I wish I could have a cigarette right now. That would be so cool. But I also think like Gen Z's generation vaping. I don't know if it was pushing out, but just like vaping and became so. commonplace. Like every high school are vapes now. Every, like they all vape. And I think that

also kind of does normalize the like, well, I'm so close to smoking a cigarette. And like cigarettes are cooler. Vaping is like, you're puffing out of the things. Especially if you don't like the certain flavors that are, because I want to say it's only like menthol and tobacco. And if you don't like those, then

why are you vaping? Tobacco flavored vape is like, hmm, like what are they trying to make you do? It's so ironic because I mean, e-cigarettes have been around 16, 17 years. But they came out as a way to get people off of cigarettes

to the previous generation and now they've become a way to get people onto cigarettes because they made it very easy for you to get them and then the big companies slowly made the regulations to where it's going to be very hard to get them

but you're addicted already. So I mean, cigarettes are pretty easy to get at every gas station on the planet. So it's just weird the shift and like maybe it is uncool now to vape because people's parents are vaping because that's the generation that's started in.

So it's interesting. I'll say one thing that's also not, it's like similar but different is a huge thing with guys my age or zins, those little like mince. Oh, yeah. Everyone has those.

And like, I'm assuming like people, you know, like everyone just does that. And it's like if you already just have that nicotine habit, it's like, okay, well,

what else? You know what I mean? There's so many ways to just like keep you in the, in that like, I don't know. You know, you're going to be dipping.

Well, I probably won't, but. Well, you would. Well, you can find, all those great products, probably at the gas station, the grocery store, along with a lot of junk food, which leads us to our next theory, which is, what the fuck are we eating? Okay, I fell down a rabbit hole. I'm going to start here. Hershey's don't come for me.

We got sent this a ton. We got this so many times and I just want to show it because it looks so crazy. Just check this out. What? It's rubber. What is happening? Wait, did you get some of her shoes for us to try this? Oh, no.

He didn't actually. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I think we need to post me. What is happening? Okay. Listen. I mean, we've seen the original creator of Rhesus or the family of Riesis is pissed because he's like, what the fuck you guys putting your recess.

Now it tastes gross. I agree. What is happening? I don't know what's happening there, but I will say it reminded me of a couple years ago when we had all that rubber fruit. It was like, look at this banana. And the lady was like, and it was like, look at this watermelon. It was like, what the fuck is going on? Hershey, whose own Reese's since 1963 says it's starting next year,

it is going back to the classic milk chocolate and dark chocolate recipe. So that kind of led me down a rabbit hole about food in general and certain things that these food companies are doing, which is so crazy. And I know we already know all this, But I heard one about chips that really fucked me up. I was telling Rylind about me too. What are you going to tell me next sauce is bad for me? Isn't it crazy that like I don't get upset about AI, but all this food shit really drives me nuts. That is crazy.

Because even the good food they're now, they're saying it's not good. Yeah, right. And then we can talk about food and home products. It drives me crazy. So scientists say that chips can be as addictive as drugs. I believe this. I fully believe this. I'm addicted.

It is engineered that way, allegedly just a theory. Kind of. Kind of. So they literally make it impossible for you to just stop at one. That's like the whole thing. Facts. And how do they do that? They engineer certain things inside of like, okay, chips are engineered for addiction

through a hyper-palatable combination. of high fat, salt, and carbohydrates, which triggers dopamine release in your brain's reward center. Even the sound, the satisfying crunch, it is all referred to as sensory-specific satiety. I don't know if I said that word right. You describing this is making my mouth water.

Okay, there we go. I'm literally, yes. Remember that. I'm thinking of Doritos. Okay, this is the craziest part. Because of the fat content of the chips, because what they put in it, my mouth is watering.

Literally. Literally. I'm just, I'm waiting for you to bring out, so we're gonna get some chips right now. Are you guys addicted yet? They specifically want you to be so addicted to these chips that you can't just stop at one. You have to eat the whole bag. They want you to be so addicted that you don't even have to stop for a sip of water or a sip of a drink. I go for a bag of hot fries right now.

So they literally make it so that these chips make you salivate and keep your mouth wet. Because if you stop to take a sip of water, it's a break. You've broken. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's the same thing as like a squirrel. It's basically scrolling for your mouth. This is the most validating thing I've ever heard because I literally eat so many chips. It's disgusting.

Well, and now, you know, shrinkflation, you get these huge party size bags and chips. And now there's like way less in them. And now you eat the whole bag and you can't stop. And now you need to buy a second bag. And now you're like, well, I can't just get the one back. I got to get this bag. And now it's like chips to me is the epitimate. And I love chips.

I'm not coming for the chip. industry. But it is the epitome of like it is so completely addictive, almost as addictive as drugs because of the dopamine release. I don't know. That just made me fucking freak out. So then I saw this maybe like a year ago, maybe not even that long ago. I was like what the hell is going on with protein? It's in everything to a point where it's like a meme now. It's like Pop-Tart protein, Starbucks cold foam with protein. Like it's all this protein, right? I'm like, what the hell is this? I see this. I'm sure you've all heard the news by now, but if you haven't, Reese's now has protein peanut butter cups. So let's take a closer look. If you ask me, this is long overdue.

And these peanut butter cups check so many boxes. Rees's Pro Plus is the name. They are all natural, gluten free, have no cholesterol and no trans fat, no artificial sweeteners. I mean, this is unreal for a protein snack. And with 10 grams of protein, 4 grams of fiber, pretty impressive. Now, these are higher in calories, but I mean, come on. And if you haven't spotted these in a store near you, it's probably because you've seen their other packaging. This is probably the version you've seen in stores. I am a jerk. I'm so sorry, but Reese's protein peanut butter cups are not a real thing. Those are the same exact products as these. This is to show you how powerful health food branding and marketing can be. Everything on that label is true of these right here, but I'm willing to bet you would buy Reese's Pro Plus

Oh, for you bought Reese's key size big cups. By highlighting the things that make these sound healthier and giving it a name like Reese's pro, it makes it seem like it's a high protein treat when in reality, I mean, these are not a good source of protein. They are delicious, but not a good source of protein. Beware of health food marketing because this and this are the same thing. Wait, is that a real thing? They have those.

Are he just showing us what could be? Yes, he's just saying. So look at this next one. I was going to say, after you finish. that video, I would always grab for that if I had, if it was, they were next to each other. I know. And that's a thing. So when you look at these protein bars and you look at, you know, they're candy. They're, they're literally like, okay, I don't want to like put them on blast. But I, there's a protein bar that I used to really like. And I was looking at the nutrition and the

ingredients. And I was like, oh, my God. And I compared it to a Snickers bar. And it was almost identical. And I was like, oh, is this, is this literally just about branding? And it's a way to make you think it's healthy. So then I fell down this rabbit hole. It seems too good to be true. It probably is. You could rebrand anything to make it sound healthy. And to prove it, I'm going to rebrand Pepsi to sound healthy. I'm just going to rebrand regular Pepsi for this one. And I'm going to use the skinny can because I like the aesthetic of it a little bit more. Changing up the colors a little bit, I'm going to start with a solid black can. I'll put the Pepsi logo front and center because you have to. I got to find a unique angle to make this one sound healthy. So I'm going to go

the hydration route because the main ingredient in Pepsi is carbonated water. So I'm going to call this Pepsi hydrate plus. The plus having no meaning at all, it just makes it sound better. I guess it could be like plus flavor, I guess. Pepsi does use natural flavors, so I'll add naturally flavored on there. And then I'm also going to add 100% plant based because that's true too. Since the main ingredient is water, I'm going to emphasize that on the bottom saying main ingredient always water. And instead of just being soda, I'm going to- It's a genius. Premium sparkling cola.

At the top, I'll add smooth taste and clean energy. And then below that, a few more call-outs. We'll go with fat-free, gluten-free, and low sodium. And the plain black can is cool, but we need to do a little bit more. I'm going to add some blue elements to this to really accentuate the water. And I will put the Pepsi logo in a water drop. And just like that, telling no lies at all, we've got healthy, hydrating Pepsi. Wow.

That was a perfect. He deserves. But this made me start thinking about every food. Everything. And that's why all the things that are like, protein, protein, I'm like, it's not that they're even adding protein property. These companies are seeing the trend. And they're like, oh, we have protein in our pop dark. That's why he said 10 grams of protein.

I'm like, that's nothing. So this one to me was the craziest. Like, I mean, this just makes me question everything. Look at how he does it with nerds. They're so delicious, though. By popular demand, I'm going to try to rebrand nerds gummy clusters. look healthy. Let's see what I got. I want to show nerds respect, so I'm going to keep the logo on there, but I am going to shrink it down quite a bit because I don't want it to be the focal point.

And now the name, nerds candy gummy clusters is not going to cut it for a health food. So, let's go with very simple, crunchy fruit chews. Below that, I'll add Made With Real Fruit Juice with an asterisk because they do use real fruit juice, but a bunch of other stuff too. I can just add that disclaimer at the bottom or on the back. Some callouts at the top to make these sound healthy. These are fat-free, only 100 calories per serving, and low sodium. At the bottom, I will also add no high-fructose corn syrup because they do use artificial flavors and colors, but it's true that there's no high-fructose corn syrup.

And I'll also add no gluten. And last but certainly not least, I want to add fruit to this package. There's no specific fruit flavor for these. It's just rainbow. So I'm just going to add a rainbow assortment of fruit all over the perimeter of this package. And there you go. Nerds gummy clusters are now healthy. Crazy.

Wow. Ben, crazy. That makes me rethink everything going to the store. Literally every health food or candy or like, oh, protein this or whatever. So then I started thinking, I was like, oh, maybe 10 years ago, everything was low carb. Low carb, low carb, carb, low carb. 10 years before that, everything was low fat, low fat, low fat. And low sugar.

Now it's all high protein. So it's almost like, oh, yeah, this is just the next stupid, brainwashing trend of like this trigger word that makes us think what we're eating is healthy when actually we're just eating a fucking candy bar but because it's high protein and I fall for it all the time I'm like like a protein cookie I'm like well it's a protein cookie yeah and then I get fucking diarrhea because I shouldn't be having that much protein on top of more protein I think people also will go for like keto right because then that emphasizes well it doesn't have carbs oh my god I've been eating these keto brownies like it's fucking water my god I'm like but it's keto

I'm like, yeah. It's bad. Yeah, so the food industry, I don't know. I just don't know how all these people sleep at night. I couldn't sell a product like that. In the big house. In bunkers. With silk.

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So this was an email. By the way, if you have any theories or Mandela's or anything you want to talk about, Shaney Dawson Podcast stuff at gmail.com. This one came in and when Spencer told me, started telling me about it, I was like, yes, I have noticed this ever since I got a new phone. And it has pissed me off so much. And I have a part two to the theory, I think. But do you want to... So have you guys noticed there was that big update and they just changed everything with iPhone.

Remember that? Now it's... texting seems harder, right? Isn't the keyboard like worse? So fucked. I never update my phone. I just can't find photos. But you haven't noticed... Whatever. Just say yes. Say yes.

You really haven't. Well, I talk to text, but it's been fucked. No, my talk to text has been fucked to do it. Everything I spell recently is wrong. Every single thing. And I'm not like a bad speller, but every time I text someone, it's wrong. And I lose my mind. I feel slower.

And then I'm like, where's the A? Why is my thing? I'm hitting the A. You used to be so good at it before. I just thought my phone was like stickier. Like something was on my phone that wasn't letting me click the keyboard. Serup on your phone. Well, this is a theory from Rachel.

She said, hi podcast, people. Does anyone notice the iPhone keyboard has been getting progressively worse. Yes. I can't go one sentence without a typo, and autocorrect doesn't seem to pick up as many words. It's been really frustrating, and I didn't realize that so many other people were noticing it too.

Anyway, the theory is that the iPhone keyboard is getting progressively worse so that you're annoyed with it into sending voice memos or voice to text. So they can start getting more and more samples of your voice, more audio samples or voice to sample, clone, do whatever the hell they want with it. I personally hate texting because it feels like my fingers can't type fast or correct enough, so I always just send voice memos to my friends.

Yes. Best, Rachel. Thank you. I literally just told you when we were setting up, I've become one of those old people who talks to text now because of this. When you talk to text, do you talk in like a certain tone? I don't know. Because I'll do that, like, hey, what's up, Dad?

I'll like say it in a way where I would like never say that to a person. I'll be like, good morning, exclamation point. Thinking, comma. I do think the bigger theory there is eventually the, the idea of like removing they've already removed handwriting they've already removed cursives they've already removed

all of our ways of communicating in that way that's a shirt where there's you know footprints and whatever to me it's almost like is the goal to make it so that we only communicate via voice because it can collect all of our audio samples but not just

audio samples that's information I mean they're listening to everything so I don't know I definitely think there is a theory here though that's interesting and even with Pokemon Go thing it's like oh that's so crazy like it's just a game cut to them literally using all of that data to fund another business like yeah you combine that with the aluminum falling from the sky and it's oh that really got to you huh chem trail's really got to you i told you i've been researching them for 12 hours to kind of swing it back to the epstein's file how you said like why is anybody talking about this i think it's even

with this like i don't know if it's the world is so busy or if if people feel hopeless because it's like, okay, what about the Epstein's files? What, what's going to happen? Yeah. What am I going to do? How can I affect this? Exactly. Like, I just feel like, are people just so busy because they're trying to, you know, live

day to day and they're, everybody's busy now. Exactly. They're trying to survive. So heck yeah. I would, I would rather get a protein in a quick snack where I'm on my way somewhere. Or, yeah, I want my phone to be able to talk for me because I'm too busy to do that. Like, it just goes back to the Epstein spiral. Like, well, how does that affect me right now?

And how am I? Yeah. Well, it's also like, you know, the distractions. It's so it's like there's that. And then it's like, oh, you know, okay, now that's over. People are done talking about that. Oh, they're talking about the files again. Oh, here's another. Here's another thing that's TSA.

These lines are crazy. Right. Well, to lighten the mood just a little bit. Now let's jump into some rabbit holes. All right. We got some crazy ones. We have one about the bodies exhibit in Vegas. I have one that it's about a children's book author who murdered

someone. I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but it's really, really dark. I have one. Jared, you have one. About what? Don't worry about it. And Jared has one about things in your bathroom that you should really throw away. Actually, it's extended to the whole household. And I thought what would be fun is, I think me and Sandy would probably be on a team because we live in the same household. But it's basically how often you're supposed to replace items within your household to be healthy. Oh, no. So just, I want to ask how often, well, who here even wears house slippers? Does anybody wear house slippers?

I'm a crock guy. Crocs. But they say, so I'll just say this one, they say for house slippers, if you don't want to have a bunch of bacteria within your house, you should be replacing those every three months. I would like to be a shoe-free house, but Shane won't let me. What about a toothbrush? How often do you replace your toothbrush? Well, I have a little toothbrush that tells me when I'm supposed to do it. It tells you?

What brand is that? Do you do it? Oh, Sonic. Wait, my Sonic doesn't tell me when I need to change it. Yeah, you sound like you have a poor one. I was given this one as a gift. And things become dangerous after this time. I need to throw that out there.

So if you're not replacing it this often, it is dangerous. For me, as soon as the bristles are like bendy, like, I don't know. Which is? Pretty quick, like a couple weeks or something. A couple weeks. A month, yeah. Max. A couple weeks?

Yeah. Well, most toothbrushes, this isn't actually in the article that I'm looking at. here but the bristles on the toothbrush the coloring on it will actually fade and once it's completely faded that's when you're supposed to throw it away so like the blue coloring on your toothbrush once that's faint you're supposed to throw it away but it's supposed to be every three months I've been using the same toothbrush for like three years well I just got a new one but before that and I only got a new one because like we just received it or I would have probably never used a new toothbrush I'm a loyal guy to a fault

including my toothbrush. All right, what about a kitchen? This is kind of gross. I mean, kitchen sponge. What is the toothbrush answer? Three months. Three months. Okay, okay.

How about this? There's a few of these. No sponges. There's a few of these that are like, back, whatever. There's a few, though, that really got me because I thought we'd all have a bad answer for. Okay.

But how often? I don't know if yours tells you, Spencer, you fucking Gen Z guy. But how often do you replace your pillow? Oh, the actual pillow? Your actual pillow. Oh, not. Not enough.

Almost never. I can't remember the last. Well, we bought new pillows, but we still use the older pillows. You're supposed to replace your pillow every year because dead skin, dust mites, and dirt's built up and become harmful to you. Oh, I'm doing every two, so I don't know. Isn't that crazy? What was the kitchen sponge? A week and a half.

What? Okay, that makes sense. A week and a half? You're supposed to wash your bed sheets every week. That's what I do. Because you can get acne. Yes. I get acne very.

I change my pillowcase like every three days because I'm afraid of breaking out. I think we've had towels in our house for five plus years. Didn't you see use paper towels? For my face, I'll use paper towels. But like if I'm getting out of the shower, I'll reuse like a shower towel twice, but I won't do it with my face. Oh, yeah. Underwear. Oh, I change it daily.

No. No, no, no. Replace. I don't know. The fact that you said it that fast leaves me to believe you don't. How often you should replace your underwear? Six months. Oh, wow, you're good.

I don't buy a new underwear until there's holes in it. Yes. I just thought some of these were interesting because it's like maybe it's being put out by underwear companies as a hey, we ain't still on enough underwear. You got to get rid of underwear every week. What about like makeup sponges? Oh, makeup sponges. You are supposed to replace every three months.

Oh, that's longer than I thought. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought that was interesting. We didn't talk about the avalanche thing. I haven't talked about that. Yeah. So that's crazy.

My rabbit hole is something that I never even thought about ever. And then I saw this video of a train and they're going through a snowy area and an avalanche starts to come and it's like getting closer and then just and snow totally over-daked. Everybody was fine. But like it freaked me out because I was like, oh my god, that's so scary. Then I saw this. People who get stuck in avalanches, report not knowing which way the ground is, which way the sky is.

When you don't have any visual information, when the usual things that you use as cues are stripped away, it's incredibly difficult to orient yourself. I've heard that, and I love thinking about it because it's so frightening. To be, like, buried in snow, not knowing which way is up, not knowing which way to, like, crawl out. And I have in, while I'm laying in bed, thinking of how I would survive certain things,

I've come up with my strategy. Can I tell you what it is? Yeah, go ahead. It would be to drool. Yes, that is. That's the actual trick. Is that a real thing that you should do? That's the real trick.

It's to spit and see which way the saliva goes. And then you know which way down is. Exactly. Wow. I was thinking, I've never thought about that. That's terrifying. It, like, makes me sick thinking about being trapped in it. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Like, have you ever jumped off a high dive into a pool? Yes. Yeah. And when you jump off a high dive, and you get into the pool and your body starts to kind of flare around and go crazy. There's like a, there's a brief moment where you're like, you don't know where is up and where is down and you're like, what the fuck? And then your body starts flaring. Okay, there I am.

Like that is so scary. The thought of that in snow? Awful. Imagine they're like panic digging down. Oh my God. Oh my God. I could throw up. Yeah.

I hate that so much. So that, I thought this could be an interesting conversation. What is your biggest fear slash what is the scariest way to die? Sharks. I'm so scared of sharks. I'm so scared. Well, then just don't swim in the ocean. But I love the ocean.

I would say being buried alive in a very tight coffin where I couldn't move at all. Because think about it, a shark, I'm not like, it's going to be pretty quick. But if you're buried in a coffin with enough oxygen, you can live for like days. And just imagine if you can't move. Slowly die. And then you have an itch. If you try to move your hand, you're going to be stuck like this for who knows how long.

But I mean, anything where you're restricted to movement and you just have to die of natural causes is terrifying because you're viscerally aware of all of it. But you can't do anything. Like, I would rather just get shot. You know what I'm saying? And have it be over? So I think that.

But, well, have you seen how those like cave, you know, those guys to explore like the caves where it's like you can barely fit through? In like the animations of how those guys have died, it's truly terrifying. That's exactly what I'm saying. Imagine that. I'm more and more afraid of people as time goes on. Because when I was younger in high school, like I would take public transportation all the time.

And then like as time has gone on, especially not that long ago, there's the video of the guy who would have stabbed the woman to death. And like some really horrific things have been happening. At least I've seen videos of. And I don't know. Now I'm more scared than ever. But like before I would easily happily take public transit. that I would happily be, like, I don't know, I never thought about these things. And, like, I'm more scared as time goes on.

Oh, yeah. Me and Rylan were just, like, walking around, like, a beach area, like, 11 p.m. And I was, like, somebody could just kill us right now. Like, that, and then what? Were you there when we talked about this? When we were eating before, my, I had a friend come visit, uh, who had never been to Santa Santa Monica before. It was his first time ever.

And his first time ever on the pier, there's a shooting. And everyone, like, goes in the bathroom and thinks they're going to die and panic. And I'm like, I've been to the pier so many times. That's never. happen now have to be scared of the pier now I have to like everything's scary now I feel I mean there's a reason right anywhere I go if there's like a ton of people I owe is like okay where's the exits like what would I do if something were to happen just because you know nowadays it's horrible these tragic events that happen and yeah so people are definitely the scariest well speaking of scary

you had a rabbit hole about the bodies exhibit which I'm curious about because I've been there and shit fucked it was also right next to a Titanic again exhibit where it was like just, I mean, I love Titanic, but it was fucking scary too because it was like, put your hand in this cold water and see how long you last. Oh my God. They were in this for days. I'm like, oh my God. It was right next to the bodies exhibit. And I walk in and I was just like, oh, yeah. So yeah, well, this is dark. There is a mother claiming that her son was murdered and his body is being displayed at the body's exhibit in Las Vegas. Her son was named Christopher Todd Eric. He died in 2012. His death was originally listed as a a heart attack, but then they changed it to a suicide after the police found traces of cyanide in his body. His mom was like he would never take his own life. She thinks that he was murdered by his father and his stepfamily. His mom was told that he was cremated, but she says it's obvious that he never

was, and his father sold his body to be displayed at the body's exhibit in Las Vegas. She even has a picture of the alleged body of her son in the body's exhibit, and she's saying there's a lot of similarities to what our son looked like. Yeah. So this is there, yeah, it's very, this is all legit, I will say. This is not. Nothing's been proving. We just are like, it's a theory. But yeah, so this didn't even get into some. I was looking, I was, I was like, watched that video. It's someone I think recommended on the Patreon or something like that. And I was like going down this rabbit hole. Just out of curiosity, is the bodies exhibit something done through the science world?

That's kind of that's kind of the theory. Because if I have on my ID, I'm an organ donor and I pass away, can my body just go to the bodies exhibit? I don't think. So I think you could be like, oh, I'm donating my body to this. But then it is, it's supposedly, the exhibit is presented as like, look at the amazing human body. So they're not going to take my body. Once they have like fat body exhibit. I might be in the running. But it's, you know, like the muscle and all that stuff.

And people, there have been long, people have been questioning, like, where do they get these bodies from? Like, where do they? And so the mom is demanding to do a DNA test to this body. and they're refusing to do it. Whoa. So I don't know. I don't like, who knows what that means? Maybe they don't want to like play into this whole thing, whatever.

But also if it is actually. Yeah, she's right though. Because there is the thing with the dad was that it's getting a little, it gets a little true crimey, but it's like the she and the dad hated each other. He like went with him and then passed away and then she never got to like see the body afterwards. The dad was just like, oh, he's cremated. It was cremated. And so I forget there was another detail. I forget what, but like about how she was like,

where the ashes, where's this, was that? And then, like, there was a tie from the dad to Vegas. And then I don't know exactly how she came. I don't know exactly how she made this connection. But out of curiosity, though, how are the bodies? What is the process to get the bodies? It's very like, it's not exactly clear what the process is, which is why I think this is. So many people are like, oh, what is the deal here?

And like, where do you get these bodies from? Like, supposedly they're getting donated. Some are donated. But it's like, there's a lot of bodies here. And so I don't know. But anyway, that was a rabbit hole I fell down. I didn't really have to get into it, but it's because there's no conclusion, but yeah. That's horrifying.

This is dark as well. So this last rabbit hole to me kind of goes along the same lines as sometimes serial killers or, you know, people who are doing harmful things like to just put it out there because if they were guilty, like they would never put it out there like this. This one is so crazy. I cannot believe this is real. This mother of three was celebrated for a. children's book she wrote about grief after her husband died. He was 39. It completely took us all by shock.

But now a bombshell new chapter. She's accused of murdering him. Kuri Richens told authorities she found her 39-year-old husband Eric called to the touch on the floor in their bedroom. The newly widowed mom posted this tribute video to her husband on Facebook. Life is just so damn hard without you here, she writes. Then she published this book teaching kids how to deal with grief. She titled it, Are You With Me?

It features an image of her smiling husband in the clouds with angel wings and a halo. It's dedicated to my amazing husband and a wonderful father. Dad is still here. It's just in a different way. 33-year-old Richens was interviewed about her book by KTVX in Salt Lake City. My kids and I kind of wrote this book on the different emotions and grief. breathing processes that we've experienced. Her book gets five star reviews on Amazon, very well written and from the heart.

Thank you, Corey, for writing a book that helps young minds understand that spirits of our loved ones are around us always. But in a stunning development, Kuri Richens was just arrested in her husband's death. Authorities say they found five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his body. Court documents say three weeks before he died. Eric Richens had gotten very ill after a Valentine's Day dinner with his wife. Eric told a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him. The document said. Oh, he was 30 years.

So she was found guilty of aggravated murder, attempted murder, insurance fraud, and for poisoning her husband for financial gain. She faces up to 25 years to life in prison. And that happens in May. She'll be sentenced. That is crazy. Yeah. That to me is so crazy because it's like, you really don't know. Like this woman, I would have never even known that. Like, and the fact that she wrote a book about how to deal with grief when she's the one that killed the hut is so fucking crazy to me that it's like, what is that? People are sick in the fucking head. I mean. And then to cash in on the life insurance front too, like the book was the bestseller wasn't enough for you after killing your husband. Yuck. Okay. So the last thing I want to bring up is kind of a follow. follow up to something we've talked about before.

And this, I do not have confirmed. We tried to get them, but they're like sold out everywhere. Have you guys heard about Costco's new energy drink? Is it a cold brew? No. Oh. Okay. As you guys know, we've done videos about it.

We've talked about it on the podcast. There is a theory that some of the products at Costco that are, you know, Kirkland brand are literally the same actual ingredients as the mainstream item. For example, like, you know, the cereal, the Kirkland cereal, there's a theory that it's actually made by the same company that makes the big brand cereals. And the reason they do that is called white labeling. And the reason they do that is because they want to be able to, you know, make more of a profit on it. And, I mean, Aldi has been allegedly doing this. Trader Joe's has been allegedly doing this.

Like this one, I instantly knew. And I don't know if anybody's talking about this yet. But Costco just rolled out. Kirkland Signature Sparkling Energy drinks. They're only 70 cents a can. Oh my gosh. So cheap. And they look like this.

So it's Celsius? Well, I Google because I was like instantly, I'm like, what's this a white label of? This has to be a white label of something, right? So then I Google, what energy drink is 200 milligrams of caffeine and has flavors tropical orange and peach? It says Kirkland Signature Sparkling Drinks found at Costco contain 200 milligrams of caffeine. caffeine, have zero sugar, and offer tropical, orange, and peach. The only other energy drink that matches that same criteria of 200 milligrams caffeine and

peach, tropical and orange is Celsius. And I'm like, what if it's literally the same thing? And how much is a can of Celsius? But if it is Celsius, I'm guessing they have a deal with. No, they're probably just using the same manufacturer. So Costco does sell Celsius. And now their new energy drink is. right on the shelf next to it.

That's crazy. 76 cents a can is ridiculous. LCS lost over $100 million because of the Costco energy drink. You can see it was announced here, and look how far it's gone. Well, this all sounds to me like we need to hop in that van and go to Costco. You can get it some chicken bakes.

They're always too salty. Sorry, I'm a Costco hater. I hate Costco. Sorry, I hate it. Only Airwant, where you get good deal. I'm not about a good deal. I'm not about a good deal. I'm about enjoying my size.

You're all that vibes. Well, there you guys go. Hopefully you enjoyed this conspiracy-only episode again. Who knows? Maybe we'll never do it again. Let us know in the comments. We're going to see how the next episode goes. They're going to be very mad of me.

This weekend, we're going to see if you guys like this or not. I'm so curious. I don't know. I really genuinely, and I kind of love that I'm nervous because, like, posting it tomorrow or on Sunday, I don't know what the reaction is going to be. People might hate it. People might like it. But for me personally, I feel like this is.

just been really fun so yeah I feel good about it not in an air one hoodie while I'm dragging Costco yeah an air one quarter zip oh shit all right I'll see you guys next time keep a lookout for distractions they're everywhere see next time bye