The Shane Dawson Podcast - The Silencers Conspiracy Theories

Episode Date: April 26, 2026

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So then I started thinking, okay, well, what's a theory? Why is everybody wanting us to have self-driving cars? Like, why is it such a thing? We've talked about it a little bit in the past. So then I saw this. Oh, my God, we're going to die. I mean, it's special to say that I was a... Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. I'm going to start this episode off with a very big disclaimer, and I thought I gave enough disclaimers in the last episode. Like, I feel like I, I went. overboard on disclaimers and it still didn't work. So when we kind of revamped the show to do more like just conspiracy theories, I got really excited because I do love this and I love talking about stuff like this. But part of me did get nervous because I started remembering, oh yeah, now I know why I stopped doing this. And it's because talking about stuff like this, even with disclaimers,

it gets a little bit tricky. So basically the last episode went through hell. I'm not even going to get fully into it, but it literally was like, someone did not want that episode up. And it was becoming- It was kind of suspicious. It was getting so crazy. Like video goes up, I'm excited about it, proud of it. I'm like, I like that episode. And then it was like, boom, it got hit with something. I was like, wait, what?

Fixed it. Boom. Basically, we had to remove like a whole chunk out of the video. Yeah. Two actually from two different people. And it was like, wait, what? I've never had that happen before. Like, I had to remove two chunks out of the video.

Oddly enough, one of them was about the reptiles, which I was like. It was very suspicious. No one wants us talking about reptiles. I was like noted. Never again. No, I'm kidding. But, I mean, it really was scary. But I'm not going to stop doing this show.

I'm not going to stop talking about these theories. So before we start this episode, all of these are theories. None of these are facts. We are just talking about popular theories that are currently happening in the world. They are being talked about on the news. They are literally talked about on TikTok, Instagram Reels. Anytime you open your phone, people are talking about these things. We're not talking about, like, things that are super crazy or super, like, problematic.

Like, especially in the last episode, I was so nervous to talk about chemtrails because I personally am like, I don't believe that this is what they're doing, right? But it's one of the biggest conspiracies of all time. I want to talk about it. I want to have a conversation. Yeah. I think it's fun. And I gave a whole thing about what it really is.

And even then, it still kind of had some issues. So going into this episode, I don't want to like not talk about stuff those. But I'm going to give even more disclaimers and I'm going to say like none of these are facts. And also like I don't want to turn this show into we're the crazy people talking about the crazy things. But also isn't it kind of fun to talk about some of the crazy stuff? Even if it's crazy and be like, we don't believe this. But. Yeah.

We can move a discussion for fun. That's what people do. I go on Instagram and I see a reel that has like 10 million views talking about whatever we're talking about. And they're fine, but we get like our shit removed. And I'm just like this. You know, but listen, it's all for fun. It's all entertainment. We're not saying we believe any of this.

And we're just trying to have a good time around the conspiracy table. Is that what we're calling this now? I don't know. I think so. I think that's a good name. And it's not like we're making anything up from our own viewpoints. We're really just joining the conversation about these topics. Okay, our first theory.

Disclaimer. I do not believe that this is real. But I do have a theory on what it might actually be. We'll get to that later. Have you guys heard of Palm Beach Pete? Oh, no. Jeffrey Epstein? Allegedly.

There's a lot of things I've seen online where they do comparison photos or a little bit of investigative journalism behind the guy. And I just think what an incredible disguise it would be. If you were, you know, someone who, there's already a lot of lot of mystery shrouded around where you how you went off basically and to come back as a personality it's on podcast it's like killing it's living the life well play if that's the case i don't condone it but i mean it's fascinating and if you don't know what it is let me bring up to speed and bring chris up to speed because he hasn't heard of palm beach peeve this is the first thing that

went viral steen is alive epstein is alive I mean, the guy in the video that everybody thought was Epstein ended up releasing a reaction, which I will say is weird because I think he's wearing the same outfit. And it almost looks like he released it at the same time, which was pretty crazy. I'm not Jeffrey Epstein. I'm Palm Beach Pete. Some dude randomly filmed me while I was driving on I-95, unbeknownst to me. And the next thing I know, I'm a viral sensation.

Pretty crazy. I want to thank everybody for the positive comments I got from, I'm saying I'm not Jeffrey Epstein. I'm just Palm Beach Pete. Going to play some tennis today. That's a pretty great name he's created for himself. He says it every time. He says, I'm not Epstein.

I'm Palm Beach Pete. Can I ask a question about that? Okay, we have more to get to, but before we get to this, question. So was he Palm Beach Pete before? This is part of the, no, he was Epstein before. This is part of why people are weirded out where it's like, it feels like he just came up with this. If it was like.

Genius. Yes, then he deserves it. This is his Instagram page, like, Ombyteet was created, like, right when this happened. So it feels like, that's why every, that's why it's like, it sounds like a joke. That's why the theories are so, like, real. It's because it's like, wait, like.

Okay. This goes with my drink theory. I'm shook to that. Literally. I bet. Viral moments. Well, yes, he probably was going about his everyday life and every grocery store he was in.

They were probably like, you really look like Jeffrey Epstein. And then he probably. I feel like they were more scared than that. Yeah. And then he probably, he probably, probably got the light bulb idea of like oh I'm gonna hire like a 20 year old to be like so one of the key things of a liar is that whoa that's Palm Beach Pete now I know it looks like this is Jeffrey Epstein wait now that you show this video Pompeish Pete needs a little

more sun damage that's the same person here it so listen to how they pronounce to achieve how they pronounce the F's as your firm mr. Edwards and mr. Jaffey who can describe by the US attorney as perpetrating one of the largest frauds in South Florida of history. Farrant. Did you say largest fart and fraud? It's crazy, right? Palm Beach.

I did one of the largest for. Farts. Okay. And then this is, this is campaigning in Hollywood to play. That is. This is Palm Beach Peak. And then this is PPP.

And some knucklehead films me. Stop! He's doing this on purpose. I need you to know. Gun to my head, if you showed me those video on something, said which one's Pete and which one's Epstein, couldn't tell you. So he either is gunning to play Epstein or he is Epstein.

I know that's why it's- It's- From sunny Florida and then a cloud in the sky. I'm off to play some tennis. I'm not Jeffrey Epstein on Palm Beach Pete. I can talk to it makes no difference where I am in fact. I'm still talking to the same person if I was at my home in Palm Beach. But I'm here in jail. Unbeknownst to us-

Shit! It's crazy. Disclamber. I know, I know. I'm not saying it's actually obscene. But also, what? Ryland? I mean, we're looking at PbP.

Well, if we're going to go further down the rabbit hole. So people have mapped their teeth. Stop. Stop it now. The internet's crazy. So people are, this is another thing. This is another one of the big things that people claim. It's identical.

It's him. The teeth are extremely similar on the bottom. Which is which? Oh, Pombie. So he's now. gained a mole. That was the only disguise. I mean, it would be weirder, it would be weirder if there was a mole like previous, you know,

it's okay. Right, right, right. But then if we want to go even further down, so this is the video of Palm Beach Pete, see this little tattoo he's got on his arm right here? Yes. Well, actually, you know what's funny is there's another guy who has... Oh my God! I need to go. So he's on his arm in the exact same place.

So he's really playing into this if he isn't him. There's too many coincidences here. What the hell? And so is he like trying to do something meta, like Spider-Man on Hollywood Boulevard? I don't want to get... Okay. Is that meta? I think that's just the guy dressed like Spider-Man.

No, I know, but he's like playing the real-life version of... It's not like as on the nose. This video about this kind of covers some of the stuff, but it's like... So he went on TMZ. And even the TMZ people were like... Here, I'll just... Wait, hold on. Wait, in 2019, you're saying...

saying you lived in New York City? Yes. So you've been everywhere he goes. All they were doing was asking Palm Beach Pete where he was living in certain years. Every single time. And he was telling them he was living in cities where Jeffrey was living at the same time. Him granting this interview with TMZ as part of basically his world tour of trying to prove that he is not the man everyone is saying. Morning everybody. This is Palm Beach Pete.

I'm not Jeffrey Epstein. I'm just Palm Beach Pete. I'm so not Jeffrey. I think the deeper underlying purpose, it's obviously not him. Yeah. Obviously. But I think, listen to the tone of this conversation right now that involves his name. Yes. It shifted kind of the whole, when it gets brought up. Maybe Palm Beach Pete is the more trendy topic to bring about.

Like, we're all laughing. Oh, my God. It's fun now. Now we're celebrating this guy in a way, you know. And it's pretty interesting because it takes the mind to drift a little bit. That is crazy. So here's what I wrote down. Once again, I do not believe that Jeffrey Epstein is alive.

I think he's dead. But I did write this down. Theory. Is this a distraction? Similar to when celebrities use body doubles to trick the paparazzi. Once again, I'm not saying I believe that, but it is interesting that we've now turned one of the biggest monsters of all time into like a hilarious guy that we want on the podcast. Yeah. No, that's a really good point.

Shout out to Palm Beach Pete, who's obviously a very unique character. He's an original. Nothing but he says he is. He's not a bad guy. Palm Beach Pete. Peepie, Pete. Jesus. Whoa.

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might seem funny and stupid and like, why are we even talking about this? What a joke. But the more I fell down the rabbit hole of what this actually means, and I'm sure Jared's going to have something to say about this because I feel like we've talked about this before. This is a video I just saw where, well, let me just show you.

Scientists have literally put a fly into the matrix. Scientists have uploaded a brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation. Look at this little guy. He's just there washing his hands, living his best life. It has no idea at all that it's in a digital world. Look at this. He's about eating digital food. Oh, look, it's so tasty, right?

Bro, this is wild. The way they demoed this was using 139,000, neurons and 50 million synapses from a real fruit fly brain. Built the neural model, plugged the sensory inputs, give it a physics simulated body and environment. Just like that, the brain performs its natural behaviors of a fruit fly. But it's in a digital world and has no idea

that it's in a digital world. No way. It's literally the matrix. So the crazy thing to think about if you really want to think about it is what if that's us right now? Or what if it's something that could happen to us? So a fresh new take on the simulation theory? Do you know the show upload?

I haven't seen it And I've heard about it But yeah It's like when you're reaching The end of your life You can put your consciousness Until like this Until like if you have enough money

I think You can like pay to put your like consciousness And live on forever in a thing And it's it feels a lot Like that And that's real That right? Yeah it's real

My brain exploded In the physical world When I watch this Because I was like Okay so the fly Doesn't know That I could throw a up thinking about that. Like the thought of him not knowing him, getting into gender,

him not knowing that he's not real is so crazy to me. So that's scary. But also like, why are scientists doing this? And if they're testing it on a fly, what's next? And then once they get to humans, what's the point? And then I read, but I don't know if this was AI or not. Because a lot of news lately, I'll actually research it and it's literally AI and not does not AIs putting out its own news stories. Yes. What? I thought we were inside of the world. where publications are having like staff be like, AI, write this article and then publishing it. But I didn't know we were in a world where like AI's publicating them.

We're in full dead internet mode. Like there, sorry, I'm getting on a tangent, but I also saw the same reel over and over again. It was like, first it was a girl and she was just like, have you guys ever wondered why blah blah blah? And I was like, next this guy. Have you guys ever wondered why? And I was like, what?

10 reels later, the same script, And then I looked into it and they were all AI and they were all made to promote some product. And it's not real. And I was just like, I literally scrolled for 10 minutes and every single person was fake. So Jared, what do you think about this fly thing? Where is this leading us? I mean, a couple of things that come to mind right away is one, is there a mortality for this fly now? Because flies only live like two days.

Right. So in this metaverse matrix situation, is there an expiration date on the fly? or, you know, is it just going to live on forever? That's pretty interesting. But also, maybe you could speed up the process of building intelligence. Like, I don't know if you ever watch Westworld, the viewers in the show. But the whole premise is there's this amusement park for adults where the whole shtick is, everybody within this amusement park is a robot.

But highly realistic. I mean, you would never know. If this was a robot that, you know, was among us, it would look just like a person. And even in the show, the big reveal is always which one is a robot. But one of the things is the robots, if they get killed per se, they go to a doctor or engineer that fixes them back up and makes them hole again. But there's a dial that could raise the consciousness, the intelligence, the emotional intelligence. And in like one of the episodes, a lady had the ability to do her own gauging and put it to like all the way up. And it was almost like she couldn't even fathom what she was even thinking about in that moment.

It was just like too intense, but what if they're able to put a consciousness in there, dial it up to that point and then decipher exactly what's happening? It might just be a way to harvest information. I don't know. It's all very much like, but what is the point? There has to be a point to it. I kind of think maybe. So I started thinking about it. And I was like, well, what would be the point of this, right?

Then I got thinking, well, Sam Altman, right? The guy who created Open AI. Well, if I'm his team and even him, I'm like, well, what if you just put my consciousness into this thing? into this thing if I'm unable to run into company or whatever, he'll do it. It's the same brain, the same mind, the same everything. Like that's me. And then it's like, then that becomes, well, what if we just do that for all of the, you know, smart people in the world?

And then what if we do that for all of our bosses? And what if we do that for ourselves and we don't have to go to work? Our consciousness goes to work. And then we get to hang out and play. Like, is that where we're going? But I even think like you say like Sam Altman's team, you know, they're able to digitally quantify his consciousness and put it in the, this matrix program, can more than one of those exist of Sam Altman and be accessed independently?

Because if so, because then Sam Malmett could say like, well, hey, if you want me to run your company too, for like 10% of your company, I'll let you download my consciousness into your server. It's like when you say like, I wish I could clone myself. Like when you have too much work to do and you're like, I wish I could clone myself. So I could get all this work done. What if you can? You could rent a clone maybe. Digitally clone yourself. Maybe you could rent one for like 50 bucks a day. That'll be a service in the future. I got to do some shit I don't want to do. Weber.

There you go. Yeah. It's like Uber. Okay. Well, speaking of cloning ourselves, this, okay, this goes along the whole thing we were talking about of like dead internet and how nothing on Instagram or TikTok is real anymore, just a theory. Let me show you this reel that popped up that made me question everything. Here's another one I did for Breeze. Create a Facebook ad for a soda alternative called Brez pronounced Breeze.

You all, I cannot stop talking about this drink. It's called Bres, spelled B-R-E-Z, but you say it like breeze, and it is my new favorite alternative soda. This flavor is lemon elder flour, super light, kind of floral, a little citrusy. It has microdose much. And she's talking all about the product. Like, I didn't include anything about it. It's able to find it. These videos are absolutely insane.

This is- That is not real, and the product isn't even fucking- If I was scrolling, I'd believe it. Me, I, 100% believe it. And then I saw, so I saw that real. And look how far it's come. So two years ago on September of 2020. We did our whole like AI conspiracy video, which is so crazy we should react to it or something because yeah, it's insane.

Everything we talked about has come true and has been worse. Like remember that could be for the disclaimer. Everything we talk about becomes true and it gets worse. Dislamer. We do not believe any of this stuff. None of it happened. So look at Rylan's fake avatar that we created just two years ago and how. Not very realistic it is.

Hey, Shane, your instant avatar is ready. Try creating videos with it. Also, click the feedback button to share what you think. Hope you enjoy. That was kind of like him. I think it's pretty good. It's not, but it gives you that, oh, it's AI, right? I mean, but now AI is so good, dude.

You could just put it in a prompt to be like, hey, be me acting this part perfectly. And can you just send that in as an audition? Oh, for auditions. Yeah. Don't give him ideas. That, wow, that really unlocked. Imagine there's going to be a movie like, hey, we cast on all the people. Where the hell are they? I was thinking of, you know, celebrities do cameo.

Oh my God. That is actually genius. Just a theory. New theory, new theory. So this is a clip we used Ryan's Avatar to make a clip. And here it is. Hey, guys, all of my vlogs have been a lie. Me and Shane aren't together. I don't even live in this house. And we rent the animals for filming. It's honestly not that bad. I kind of want to post it out of context now. I remember it took so long for us to get a sentence that was bad, but also they would let us make him say.

Because they wouldn't let us say any swear words at all. It was so annoying. Well, we tried it yesterday because I was like, oh, do we still have Ryland's Avatar? So especially, yeah, we have it. I'm like, all right, let's see if it's gotten better. I'll let you guys be the judge. Hey, girlies. Just wanted to pop on here to let you know that Shane was right during our last fight.

I was totally in the wrong and I wanted to tell him sorry. Shane, I am actually sorry. I am actually sorry. Okay, I will say one thing. I asked Ryland to give a baseline video for this, and I've never heard him talk more like a robot in my life. I think it's because he said, you need to pause after every sentence. And so then I was like, hey, my name is Ryland.

How are you? How else would I talk and pause at the end? You talk normal, and then you leave a gap. I can't do that. I didn't know what you were doing, but I heard him. recording this and I was like, why is Rileylan talking like a robot? So I think it's a little bit, I don't know. I think I'm bad at AI.

It's a little bit of user error for me and Rileyland together. Now, speaking of all of that, and please don't get any ideas for this. Then I saw this. Change your background. It's your outfit. So, okay, that was crazy to me because her background literally changed into a completely different one. And it didn't look green screened. It didn't look like weird or fake.

It looked 100% real. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. And I was like, how many people could you trick with that? Then I saw this one that really takes it up a notch. The barrier of entry for high quality content is now so low because of AI. You don't need the perfect background, perfect makeup, or full setup before you hit record. I'll show you how to do this in less than 30 seconds. And I'm like, nobody's going to do this, right?

I mean, that's what we thought about FaceTune. Right. In her video, she put comment AI to get a full step by step, 15.1,000 comments and they are all AI, AIA, AIA. And they're all AI, AI, AI, come on. Same thing with the location one. That girl got 33.9,000 comments. And it's all people, it's a comment how to learn

how to change your background in your outfit. Clear the same formula. I do think though all of this is going to result in there being a lot more value in being outside and interacting with real people. Like at some point people are gonna want actual human interaction and how can you guarantee you're getting that online It's a trend people are seeing with like really young people now is that they like they value like in-person stuff way more like a concert is like there's a reason concert tickets are so expensive too is like kids are like willing to pay a lot of money because like this is where we actually can live real life Well speaking of real life there's nothing more real than school. This is not a brand deal for school

I'd be open to a sponsorship from school Me too Hey, we're partnering with school Remember how upset Why did I look at you? You didn't know me when I was six Remember what I loved Well, you just can't remember life without me

I can't I did see this and we had Jared has broken this down before But in case you haven't seen that episode I want to show this again Once again disclaimer I am not saying any of this is true I am not anti-school I think school is great

We're sponsored by school. So yes, I'm not anti-school. I'm not anti-teacher. I love teachers. But I thought this was interesting. So I wanted to talk about it just because I think it's kind of entertaining and fascinating. So here we go. John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in the entire world from the oil industry.

And in 1903, he funded the General Education Board with a famous quote of saying, I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers. The General Education Board's main objective. was to create schools that focused on obeying authority, following rules, memorizing, not thinking, and breeding you to work nine to five jobs for elite corporations. That is why we see the mundane subjects in school of things like math, English, and other subjects. And I mean, even look at our schools. They look like prison.

Why do you think I never memorized my times tables? Okay, so obviously that's like crazy, right? Like I was, oh wow, that's so interesting. I was looking into it. I will say the quote from John D. Rockefeller that said, I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers. Is not proven. It's an unproven quote.

Nobody can prove that he said that, right? I want to say that. But it got me down this rabbit hole that was kind of funny of like people comparing jail to school. And it's like, it's crazy. Okay. First of all, let me just show you this video and then I'll show you more examples. Why would you put a kid in a room behind a desk when the son. is out for their whole entire childhood.

Not put them in front of water or ocean or anything that inspires them. Dim lights. If you notice, schools, jails, and hospitals all look exactly the same. Why wouldn't it be something inspired? So that video turned out to be an ad for a homeschool. Good marketing. I mean, got me. But, okay, so let me take you down the list of things that look the same

in prison as they do in school and it's pretty fun. Are we sponsored by this home school? Responsored by jail and school. So, authoritarian structure, both in school and in prison. Address code, both in school and in prison. Emphasis on silence and order,

both in school and in prison. Negative reinforcement, like detention. Oh, yeah. Walk in lines. Yeah, down the hall. That is true. Set times enforced for.

walking, eating, etc. So then there's a bunch of picture examples. So look at the food. With the little trays, very similar to prison, right? So then I started thinking, wait a minute. This is where I was, you know, creating little theories. I was like, what if it is the same food? Well, I asked Google and Google said yes. Prisons in public schools often use the same massive food service providers and distributors such as Amarik, Cisco, and Suddh. Dexco, they often have the same. So it's literally the same food? Allegedly just in fear.

I feel like I have a memory from my childhood of this. Of like, uh-oh, we found out the elementary schools using the same food as the prison or something like that. I feel like I have a memory of that being like local news and everyone's like, well, yeah. I mean, then I started thinking about like recess, you know, like you're a kid and out the yard. In prison, you kind of get a recess or you're like going to walk around the little paw area. It's just like there is a lot of similarities. And then I was like, I wonder if the Simpsons has ever like predicted this because I predict everything. And I literally Googled Simpsons prison and I found this.

We've got to figure something out. They've got us locked in here like prisoners. Prisoners in our own school. So that shot of the fucking Simpson's school being a prison is crazy. And that to me, I don't know. Listen, once again, I'm not saying school is prison. Although sometimes it feels like it, man. I'm trying to relate to the kids.

But like the similarities are wild. And Jared was on to this. I think two years ago he broke this down in one of our conspiracy. Yeah. Yeah. Period. I'm always right and it's usually worse. Disclimate.

But no, I mean. I wonder how college is. Well, how college? Like the idea of college. Yeah, like how long? Well, college is for the people that really want to get high paying jobs because you're going to make more money in a corporation if you have a college degree. Allegedly.

I don't know this for sure. But if you went to like MIT or something like that, you're probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in. debt. So they know that you're coming in having to pay off this debt. So you're going to work way harder. You're probably going to work long hours because this job means to you paying off that debt. And if you lose it, that means that you're going to go more in debt. We're a non-college graduate has none of that. So they're a little bit more riskier. They don't have the leverage on them of, you know, so that's what I've heard is one of the factors in paying more for college graduates.

But all this is why I almost went to Germany for school because I have family out there and it's just free. It's free. It's free. This episode is sponsored by Germany. Oh, thank you, buddy, bach. Perfect, yeah. German school.

Well, speaking of shit that's fucking crazy that hopefully won't get me soon because I didn't make this video. This was sent to us by Morgan and then sent to us by everyone. She was on top of this. If you have not seen this story, I don't want to give it away. Just check out the new item at Costco that everybody's talking about.

I was just at Costco and I was trying to be a cool mom, get some brownie points by treating my kids to blueberry bagels. Guess what? No cool mom here. This dietitian is not buying these blueberry bagels and I'm going to show you why. So I picked up the blueberry bagel bagel bag. And I look at the label and it says simulated blueberry bagel bagel bag. I was like simulated. That's weird.

Luckily, the ingredients list is listed right below, so let's read through them. Flower, water, sugar. I'm okay. I'm even okay with the sugar. Okay. Next is simulated blueberries in brackets. What? Sugar, corn syrup, corn cereal, corn starch, palm, I think it was all of palm oil, artificial

flavor, brilliant blue FCF, Allura Red. And there's no blueberries in this bagel. They simulated blueberries, basically just sugar, corn starch, corn syrup to make fake blueberries to put in these bagels. That's a no for me. My kids will not be getting simulated blueberry bagels. I wonder how much they are. My God, we should have got them.

We should. Bring out the bagels. Can you imagine? Like, I need blueberry for this recipe. Do you know the recipe for blueberry? I just need to make blueberry real quick First of all You know what?

Okay You're standing up for Costco Let me give one positive Before I drag them At least they're being honest about it It says very big On that label

Simul Which is crazy Which is fucking crazy Right Also imagine going to Costco And be like Hi excuse me Where's a simulated

Bable? Bangle's like What the fuck is happening right At least they were Although this is Canada. So maybe in the U.S. They're not allegedly just.

Maybe Canada has better like transparency food laws. But like that's fucking crazy. And I just get some blueberries. So that hard. Well, they're the same people fucking their chickens. Okay. I mean. So yeah.

Clarifying. Altering their rotissory chickens. They put water in the chicken. There will never be a day where I don't run into a Costco theory on my explore base. It's fucking crazy. It's like, shout on Costco for staying relevant, I guess, because it's every day. It's a little bit when you're the biggest in your category, you're going to be brought down. There's going to be haters like me.

But I don't know. I think it's more than just got some wild shit going on. They're making blueberries over there. I don't know. It's like shit's getting crazy. I don't know. But please assume me, but what? Which then I want to give a positive update.

So in the last episode, we talked about recess and how we were right and how the peanut butter cups tasted weird and different. Disgusting. And then the like, you know, grandson of Mr. Rees's, whoever came out was like, what the fuck, these taste weird. So there's an update. Hershey's and Reese's products will soon taste a little different. According to Hershey Company, the chocolate and a small portion of the products will soon be made using its classic milk and dark chocolate recipes. Some of the impacted products include Reese's mini cups and shaped The changes will take it back next year. And of course, this comes after the grandson of Reese's creator

accused Hershey of using cheaper. This is after they lied, though, and said they didn't alter the recipe. So I'm on to you big chocolate. This is where my brain goes. Okay. Shout out to big chocolate first and foremost. All right. I'm good with big chocolate.

But I believe it might have been in the 80s, maybe the 90s. I'm not exactly sure on the date. But Coca-Cola did something. where they revamped their whole ingredient list, and they had Coca-Cola new formula, and they put that out into the stores, and people were outraged. They were pissed off.

Everybody was talking about this disgusting new Coke that exists. And maybe like a year later or so, Coca-Cola decided to put back out Coca-Cola Classic. That's why it's called Coca-Cola Classic now. And they, like, quadruple their cells. So I think this could be kind of big, chocolate, taking note of big soda, and being like, well, it worked for Coca-Cola, but now we got everybody in the world talking about how bad it is.

We'll take a hit for like two quarters. You're blowing for mine. Just put out some powdering chocolate, you know, that people don't think taste good because we're going to let them know, but don't worry, you were right. And the one that you do want to get is now available again. Because people that haven't had Reese's in forever are going to be like, I wonder if it does taste the same as when I was a kid, you know, like, or younger people are going to be like, oh, finally, give me back what I wanted to get even more engulfed and eating probably

tons more Riesces now because, you know, they're back on the, on the, of the big chocolate. Imagine how much money Coca-Cola would get if they started putting cocaine back in their truck. Wow. Think about a Coke. They've been invoiced for Coca-Leaves in recent history, so you never know. Well, I will say one thing about Big Chocolate is that a little allegedly theory, just a theory, is that maybe they got onto a dude formula for their chocolate.

because there's a new trend going in big chocolate. Is that poop? Never letting my baby girl eat another Cadbury bunny. Lab-grown chocolate is now a thing. Oreo, Cadbury, and Toblerone are already funding overseas biotech companies producing it because Lab is cheaper than farm-grown always. My daughter got a Cadbury egg in her basket last year. I looked at the ingredients and immediately threw it away, which is exactly what you should do.

That dairy milk isn't even legal chocolate in 27 countries. So lab grown chocolate is hitting the shelves, folks. All these big companies, like I think I talked about it a while ago, that one of my theories was like, it's, it's becoming hard and harder to get real chocolate, these coca beans with like climate stuff and like international issues and everything. It's just getting harder to get the supplies. And so all these companies are realized like, oh, we can now grow chocolate in the lab. We can now make lab grown chocolate. And so we're just going to start replacing that. Okay.

That's yuck. Let me, okay, let's just do a quick little fun food one. And I have an idea. Bring it out. Now, this one is stupid, but it made me laugh, and it also did kind of blow my mind a little bit. This is a theory about Lucky Charms, and I bet you have not heard this one. Why do Lucky Charms look like cat food? I mean, nor the marshmallows.

Just look at the cereal. Why does it look like that? Now, the official story is that somebody in the 1960s just cut up some circus peanuts. It's like a millennium right there. But what if there was more to the story? What if I told you they had a very expensive factory full of very expensive machinery and they didn't want to throw it away?

So they said, hey, let's make a kid's cereal, but we gotta disguise it, right? So they add the marshmallows to distract us. Without them, you wouldn't eat them. But you can't mind. Oh. So are we eating cat food? I don't fucking know.

Or is it just made from the same machinery? I hope that, right? But I was like, wait. And I didn't do this to you guys because like this would be crazy. I'm not. He fed us cat food. But I was thinking like how funny would it be if before I showed you that video. I was like, all right, guys, we're going to see if Lucky Charms still tastes the same.

And if I just got cat food and put the marshmallows in it. I wish you would have done it actually. And then everybody tries it's like, no, it tastes the same. And I'm like, it's cat food. I didn't do it because that's crazy. I tricked a few people into eating dog food when I was younger. Oh my God. I remember that.

Shane's a victim. I got punched pretty hard by one of the girls. Wait, what was your scam? Because I remember this. Well, I had a bag, a Ziploc baggie full of dog food. And it just looks like grape nuts. You know, like the cereal. And one girl just asked if, you know, what is those?

Oh, it's like some healthy stuff I eat to like, you know, keep my hunger in check, whatever. And I gave her like a handful and she chucked it down. And I said it was dog food. And then she punched me in the arm and I got a pretty bad brute. Pretty bad bruce. Here's what I will say. And just like I stood up for Costco, I'm going to stand up for you here. It was funny.

At least you told them. Still crazy. That's the long con too, because you're really like doing it for a while. But you work at a pet store? Like, you think of any reason to have fun with it. That's one of them. So let us know Lucky Charms. Listen, I'm a big Lucky Charms head.

Love it. Let us know. Is that true? Did you guys used to be cat food? Or did they make, are the machines they used to make cat food? and then they transitioned it to cereal. Because that's fascinating. Why else would it look like cat food?

And why is nobody besides this genius ever said that? He did it in such a good way too where I believed him so. 100%. Big expensive thing. So why is this? Yeah, why is that? I think if you put why does lucky charms look like cat food on a shirt, that'd be a good seller.

That's a very high engager right there. You do? You think it's a high seller? Like, I think people would be cute. Well, I'd like it. Sell it on bigdicks.com. Don't say. Again, that's not the West Side.

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Enjoy the rest of the show. All right, you're never going to believe this. But this next theory was submitted by Rylan. Woo! Oh! Yes, yes, yes, yes. I will say, though, he sent me a link and he goes, I don't know what this is.

I didn't watch it. But it's a conspiracy and it was on my timeline. So this is the pink and blue. conspiracy in pop music. And you know I love my color theory when it comes to pop music. We've talked about it before. The hair theory was like a few years ago where we talked about the fact that if you want to blow up as a singer, you want to be a biggest pop star in the world. You pick a specific hair color and then it happens. And it happened with so many different people. Then it was like, well, just pick a color in general. Olivia Rodriguez picked purple. And then Taylor Swift picked

red or orange and blue in the last one, right? Yeah. Yeah. So it's like you pick a color and then you blow up. Well this new theory is how to blow up as a female pop star. Guys there is a pink and blue conspiracy in pop music. This color combo keeps popping up for all of the major pop divas. The pinks range from soft to confident and the blues range from being safe to being an authority figure. So naturally we can graph where an album is on the soft versus confident spectrum and then do the same thing on the safe to authoritative spectrum. So first thing I did was graph all of the albums on their pink scale and then I did the blues. And that's when I started to see patterns.

These are the soft and safe albums. This is soft girl but in charge. This is confident and in charge. And this is confident and safe. And that helped me find a bunch of instances where different artists use the same colors for similar emotional purposes. Pink and blue keeps popping up because it's the easiest way for an artist to immediately establish themselves as both feminine and trustworthy.

Okay, so I instantly was like, wait a minute. feminine and trustworthy. That makes so much sense, especially in pop music, right, when your target demographic is young girls. And you're like, how do I appeal to them in an album image so that they trust me and also know that I'm a girl's girl? Like, how do I do that? So then I literally searched pink and blue album covers. And the first one I found pink, trust fall. Literally trust is in the word. I love pink, by the way. But like trust, that was so funny to me. me because it's like the pink, the blue. Well, Olivia Rodrigo was one of the biggest color theory you know, conspiracies because she chose purple and she really went with it, right? Well, now she's

on her third album and she's like, okay, how am I going to, you know, appeal to the audience? How am I going to switch it up? Her next album cover. Whoa. Light pink and light blue. Then I started thinking, well, what if there's an even bigger theory to this? I agree with her. It's about the feminine and the safe. And then I was like, but what is light pink and light blue? remind me of that reminds me of childhood. That's nostalgic. Like, and nostalgia is the biggest seller of everything, of movies. That's why they remake movies of candy. That's why they always do throwbacks, like whatever. Nostalgia is huge. Childhood. So then I search like pink and blue album covers nostalgic. And then, yeah, one of the biggest pop albums of all time, Duolipa,

and it's pink and blue. And her album's called Future Nostalgia. What the hell? where the whole concept of her album was taking old songs and sampling them in every one of her songs to remind you of the songs you loved when you were a kid and I was like, whoa, like... Did you wear a pink and blue shirt on a part of the... No! Whoa.

I'm gonna throw up. The exact colors. Like the exact same. I'm sick. Oh my God, what are you trying to project... Nostalgia. You can trust him. These are just theories.

Oh, my. He doesn't believe them until they're true two years later, and then it's told you so. Whoa. So, yeah, let us know. Have you noticed any other albums that are pink and blue? And did they make you feel like you trust them? Okay. Well, speaking of not being able to trust anyone, although I trust all those pop divas.

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you walk around like a schizophrenic thinking that everything's out to get you, everybody's targeting you. It just means like you see something happen on the news, you see something happening in your life, and you just have one word, just memorize this one word when you, when you, anybody listening, when you hear that stuff or see that stuff, maybe, maybe. They say, oh, this happened today because of this one thing, maybe. Just maybe. You don't have to say there's some global cabal and like I need to drill down to the end and go break into... Cut the Rylein being like, why don't you do the dishes?

I'm like, maybe. Okay, so this was interesting because I was one thing. I don't know if any of that is true. I was looking into it. We've talked about this before where like there has been instances where the news has been caught like scripting things or you know. For sure. Setting things up or whatever. But do you guys remember in 2018 there was this clip that went viral and it was where all the news stations started kind of saying the same script?

If you don't remember, here it is. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. El Paso-Skruces communities. Eastern Iowa communities. Mid-Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces. But we are concerned about one-time news stories playing our country. Okay.

What? Crazy, right? So there was an update about this. Well, first of all, what happened was this big news organization, the largest owner of local television stations in the U.S. directed all of its news anchors in 2018 to deliver the same scripted message, which was about false news and the spread of false news and not to trust false news and things like that. So they sent out the same script to all the news stations that they owned to say the same script.

So that's why they did that, right? So then I guess they did it again? Today, Sinclair Broadcast Group was caught again with dozens of local anchors again reading the same script. The newsletters public notice and popular information first brought attention to the copycat newscasts, which featured a script, you might say, has a very clear conservative agenda. The Wall Street Journal calling in question the mental fitness of President Joe Biden. The Waller-Journas out with reporting calling him to the mental fitness of President Joe Biden. His national correspondent Matt Galka tells us the issue could be an election decider.

The issue could be an election decider. That's crazy. So, okay, I pulled those. clips, right? And I was like, oh yeah, we'll do an update, we'll talk about this. Then totally unrelated. I moved on to my next theory I was going to research, which is about your car listening to you and watching you. And I was like, falling down that rabbit hole. So first I click on this news clip. You bought a new car in the last five years. You may be sharing more than just the road. A new consumer reports investigation reveals that automakers could be tracking and selling your driving

data, often without you even knowing. Okay, so I was watching that clip and I was like, oh, wow, that's so scary. That's crazy. Oh, and then on my sidebar, and YouTube I saw this other news clip and I was like oh it's another state it's another if you bought a new car in the last five years you might be sharing more than just the road wow it's literally you can't get it reveals that automakers could be tracking and selling your driving data often without you even knowing it that new car of yours that's so weird I was like ah like it still it's still happening it freaked me out so I don't know if they're owned by what I don't But that was just crazy to me that I'm like, wow, you see a news story and you're like,

but why would you make more than one news publication say the exact same thing? To me, it like it makes it all feel weird. Because it's all content. They're just filling up space. Like I remember when the fires were happening, which was like the most traumatic, scariest thing ever. The news turned it into like the Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. I really kept dragging it on.

Dragging. Like after it was like kind of contained, it was like, you're still in danger. They want you to feel like, whoa, I'm in danger. I need to watch the news. I need to watch the news. Come back after the break to see where the fire is going to hit next. And then if you watch the movie Nightcrawler, which is really good, you just watch it. But Jake Gyllenhaal plays, you know, where he goes out and tries to film things for the news.

But, like, he starts staging things for the news and, you know, being a part of the crime scene to get footage for the news. And the news, like, it is very, very fascinating what the news is like. Yeah, it is interesting, especially now also with like, it's like, I think more and more people are like, I think they realize that's, control like just a way to get your message yeah yeah we all know but yeah well speaking of the rabbit hole light was starting to fall down and then i got distracted which was that your cars are all listening and watching you which we actually did talk about i think in that 2020 we did video but basically a lot of car companies when you you know uh buy the car if there is like an electronic anything in your car like a media center or like a screen or if you've noticed a lot of cars now have the

screens. The theory is that you are accepting a lot of terms and conditions and they are tracking everything you're doing and every song you're listening to and every like tiny little turn you make and like everything is allegedly being tracked the second that you step off the lot. So that is a theory. Then I started going down the rabbit hole about I was like well okay if all the car companies are collecting all this data like okay that's crazy but didn't one of the car companies get in trouble for like it's like sex something. It was just like Yeah, it was, yeah, they were tracking all their health data, which included how often they had sex when they had sex, when, because it would read, it would, it would, it had access to all your texts. Stop it.

Yeah. So it would take all your text and it could like, it could like scan all your stuff. We never text about having sex. That would be weird. Did it? That would be weird. Yeah, like, check. I don't think that's what it was.

Hey, we had sex just to confirm. Was it listening or was it like car sex specific? No, no, it was like going into your, like, when you, whenever you plug your phone. phone in and it's like you accepted that they can look through your phone. So then I started thinking, okay, well, what about people who just like Uber everywhere or like what about people who don't have cars or like yeah, how are they being tracked? Then I started falling down the Waymo rabbit hole. I have never been in one of these. I can't do it. I'm too scared mainly because of my car sickness. It's like way too chaos.

Yeah, right. Yeah. But have you seen all the videos of what the fuck is happening with these waymo's? Have you seen these? It's crazy. I mean, I see them in the wild but just watch A few of the Waymo's doing. Waymo than they should be. We need way less on the road. Safety concerns at this railroad crossing for a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin, Texas. The car stop between the safety arm and the tracks, just as that train passed. Waymo says there was no passenger in the car.

Company says its vehicles across that location hundreds of times without incident, but says it will now review that location. Waymo has insisted its self-driving cars are safer than human drivers. despite recent incidents making headlines. Okay, can I just say this? Waymo don't come from me. I don't want a lawsuit. But I will say it's funny to compare it to like human drivers when like, yeah, there's a lot of crazy human drivers.

They're like, but we're not as bad as the worst humans ever. I think the whole thing is like the campaign is we're not distracted. You are. Yeah. Like computers aren't distracted. But also this. How can he help? Hi, where it?

The car went into a prohibitive. lane and it's wanting to turn left but we need to go straight oh no i'm really sorry for this inconvenience already have this escalated to one of our specialists so we can we will have our specialist working in a background or dame soon joined the call i'm sorry we're gonna die let me stop the call oh my god i'm never rather shot again oh my god oh my god Imagine you're the last thing you hear is some like corporate like let me escalate that to our Oh my god. It's like the last thing you hear. Oh my God. So then I saw this. So I just found out that Waymos are driven by people in the Philippines and I can't get over it.

Obviously we know that Waymos are self-automated. But when a Waymo is in a situation where they don't know what to do, basically their controls are sent to people in the Philippines that navigate them out of those sticky situations. I can't help a picture people out there being like, all right. I'm going to make some money. I'm going to play Waymo now. It's like GTA, but instead of the regular characters, it's just tech bros in SF.

This happened to me. Really? The first time I took a Waymo, it got stuck for like 20 minutes in a parking lot. We had to call assistant. You didn't bail? No, because we had to go.

We were late. It was like we just got in. It drove the wrong way. He drove behind a building into some random parking line. And then it kept going, er. Oh my God.

We were like, hey, we're stuck. And then it was like the same kind of thing. Okay, we'll figure that out for you. And then it clearly a human took over. drove us out of the parking lot and then it took it and then he started doing it the autonomous vehicle company waymo is facing some criticism waymo's safety officer said if they get into a sticky situation agents are located in the u.s and in the philippines to help some lawmakers said having remote operators from outside the u.s could be a safety issue so then i started thinking okay well what's

a theory why are waymos taking over why is everybody wanting us to have self-driving cars like why is it such a thing. We've talked about a little bit in the past, but the one that Jared has brought up before that I wanted to circle back to was the idea of a kill switch that all the cars that are self-driving, allegedly just a theory, might have a kill switch. And that is something that could be really bad if the wrong people were in control of that. Yeah, I mean, a kill switch definitely makes sense, but also I think maybe even it was something we mentioned a couple episodes back is like, it all feels like everything is kind of gearing towards something we've been talking about since the jump, but this alien invasion that they have planned.

I mean, let's just kind of think everything is leaning towards that. But I think you had mentioned that if all the cars stopped, that would be very reminiscent of a moment in a movie where like something comes into our atmosphere that just takes up so much energy field that nothing else can exist within its range. And then everything would just go black, cars would stop. It would feel pretty sketchy. Imagine just being on the freeway and every car stops, including yours. The average created driving chaos on the streets as traffic lights were down throughout the city.

And Waybo's self-driving cars were put on pause by the company after the autonomous vehicles were baffled by the lack of traffic lights. Imagine me the only car that didn't stop. No, you know? That would be kind of weird too. Okay, that's terrifying. This is not a theory. This is just something along the lines of like Uber and crazy things that have happened. And so in 2016, Uber drivers in China found a loophole that basically would get them paid to do nothing.

They would set creepy profile pictures and unsettling names so that passengers would get spooked out and cancel the trip. That way they would collect the cancellation fee without ever having to leave the parking spot. So look at some of these. I'll use Palm Beach Pete. Like, look at some of these. Just trying to look at it. Oh my God. Like, whoa.

Okay, look at this one. I said they grow from the ring. Literally. Like this, like, what? Like, what? That, I mean... Good for you. That's human beings using their wild intelligence

to scam the system. At least they're not using A. The only problem is when somebody doesn't king. when somebody doesn't cancel and then you're obligated to still do it. And then they just like you're freak. And then they show up and they're like, oh, you don't look like a picture. Yeah, you look pretty good actually. They're like, well, I was trying to scam you.

So could you please cancel this right? Wow. Okay, Spencer. Speaking of none of that, or maybe kind of a little bit, you said you had a little rabbit hole about the CIA doing something pretty crazy. Do you guys see in the news in the like Iran war stuff, how there was like a pilot that like crashed in Iran. and there was this crazy rescue mission to like capture.

I don't if you guys saw any of that. So this American pilot crashed in like the mountains of Iran and he was stuck in and they had to like rescue him before he got killed or anything like that. And so he was the way they found him is they revealed this tool the CIA has, which is just like obviously they have a lot of hidden technology, but it's just interesting to see like when they have to use it, like how it comes out. And it's called the ghost murmur. And they have this technology.

I don't really know how it works that the ghost murmur can hear the guy's heartbeat. from miles away. They have the technology to hear the heartbeat. And they have this profile on the guy, so they know exactly, like, the unique specification of his heart rate. And so they could find him. He was hidden in a cave in the mountains in, like,

the middle of nowhere, and they, like, were scanning the area, and they found his specific heartbeat, because they could hear it. And it just, like, there's no other rabbit hole to go down because it's, like, top secret information. But it was just really interesting to me of just, like, what is, like, they're taking all this data on us,

like we're always like, well, what are they going to use for? But it's like, that's how far it can go. It's like they can know your exact heartbeat. They can find you anywhere. They can do this. They can like, but it also brings up the Luigi Mangione thing and how they're like, wait, so you found him just off of a guy recognizing him somehow, allegedly with like a just the mask on you just from his eyes.

And it's like, no, I think they were tracking him illegally in some way. Allegedly, I, theory. That's all Spencer. Well, speaking of, yeah. That. Jared. So break the... Local news is in decline across Canada. And this is bad news for all of us.

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This down because Spencer is telling me about this. I've seen this everywhere, but I really want to understand what's actually happening and what's not a theory because Spencer is saying this is like all over the news. This is a thing. Chris was even saying I had a thing about, but do you want to play your video to get into a scientist? So this is just kind of let's gradually get to the peak of this theory.

But I found this video and I found it very interesting and you'll see why, but it basically goes over products that were created that got taken off the shelf or were made to cease production and see what kind of products these are and see maybe why people wouldn't want them out there. Products that got discontinued for solving the problem. Number one, the forever flashlight. In 2002, applied innovative technologies introduced a flashlight that needed no batteries. You shook it to generate power using electromagnetic induction. No replacements, no waste. After early success, the company faced such a sudden. supply and manufacturing problems. The patent was sold. The product vanished. The idea worked. The business model didn't. Number two, the indestructible charging cable. In 2014, Fused Chicken created a steel armored phone cable built to survive extreme bending and stress. It came with a lifetime warranty. Most cables fail at the connector. This one didn't. Retailers slowly stopped stocking it. The cable industry relies on frequent replacements. A cable that never breaks,

threatens that cycle. Number three, Lifetime Mufflers. In the 1950s... And you could probably pause that this one, but basically the last one is a company was selling Lifetime Mufflers for cars. But within like eight years of them being on the market, all the auto mechanics took them off the shelf because they rely on repeat business.

But the whole thing is like there's a gentleman and his name was Stanley Meyer in a 1998, and I think we may have talked about this before, but he created a car which the engine ran strictly on water. He has developed what's called a water fuel cell. The Pentagon flew a lieutenant colonel in last week to look at Myers' invention. There's talk of possibly using it in the Star Wars defense program and to run army tanks. So this was going to be like a huge blow to the oil companies, to everyone that basically supplies the capabilities for cars to run off of gasoline.

So he was called by a company and like, hey, we're like super interested in this patent because he had a bunch of patents throughout across multiple industries. but they're like, we really like this one. We want to meet with you. So let's go out to dinner. So they take him out to dinner and he was found dead outside of the restaurant. But he had a note on him, allegedly, that said they poisoned me. And it's because of what I'm doing to revolutionize the car world. So he went in there with that note thinking there's a very big possibility that these people just want me out.

And they're going to try to do something to me. And once he realized that he walked out just enough to get his note out there and like, have it be read. But it's crazy because I think there's like a system where they find somebody and then they see, could we use this person as an asset? Do we need to get rid of this person? Or can we give this person an alternative? And Spencer had texted me about how a bunch of scientists recently have gone missing. And if I knew anything about that. And I heard a little bit about it, but I started doing more research. And it's very interesting because since 23, Nine scientists have gone missing.

And the first one in 2023, he worked for something called the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA. And then there was, I mean, most of them. Then the next guy, his name is Frank Waywald. He worked for the same exact laboratory. He was actually a coworker of the first guy who was Michael David Hicks that passed away. And it was very mysterious. Like he's a pretty healthy guy at 59 and he just suddenly dies. But the one that like really out of the nine, I believe like seven of the nine.

them work for NASA. The other two work for Los Alamos. But this one lady, this happened in 2025. Her name was Monica Riza, but she was just walking in the Angelo's Forest with like 30 people, mind you. But the last time she was actually seen, she was waving at a friend that was 30 feet away, and the friend looked back and she was completely gone. And this happened in Angelo's National Forest. It was very close to a highway. And they deemed it as it must have been accidental, you know, terrain incident where she fell off a cliff or something but they researched the clip she was next to it wouldn't have been fatal if she fell off of it and she's never been seen again and i mean this just keeps happening over and over whether people are dying whether people are going missing i mean the

last one was actually a a guy that was doing like cancer research and his body was found and he was part of like JPL and this just happened literally a month ago so he's the last in the string of disappearances but it's just like a wild thing and it has been on the news a lot like the lady that I just told you about she uh went missing it was in June of 2025 and then like eight months later the general in charge that was funding her project went missing so it was the one that really like broke it open so it's kind of like why are all these people going missing do they know something that they shouldn't know, do they possess something that other people want, or are they just so valuable for us that it makes them dangerous for somebody else for us to have them on our

team, you know? Wow. But it's a lot to think about. That's terrifying. Wow. Careful out there. Just to end this episode on a light note, I guess. A light blue and light pink note.

Thank you. Wow. Have you guys heard of DoorDash's brand new standalone app called Tass? No. This is not sponsored by tasks, but let me tell you about it. Instead of paying dashers to drop off your food, they started paying dashers to strap on a body camera and film themselves doing their everyday housework chores. Oh, what in the Pokemon Go?

Things like hand washing dishes to loading the dishwasher, folding laundry, uh, recording unscripted everyday conversations in different languages. So why are they doing this? while the AI and robotics industry is starving for high-quality real-life data. So tech giants need massive amounts of first-person video to teach the next generation of humanoid robots and AI systems how to understand complex daily tasks. So rather than building a data collection team from scratch, DoorDash realized they already have a network of 8 million independent contractors across the US.

So now, if you want to join tasks, you strap a camera to you and just do everyday chores. Very cool. But to me, it's interesting because, like, yeah, in the right now, you know, any job is good. Like, you know, people need jobs. But also, you're just training the AI and the robots to take this job very soon. There are so many people doing that right now. It's like, guys, don't do that. Yeah.

Stop. I don't know. I just thought that was an exit. level. That is crazy. I don't know why we keep going towards the humanoid robots because I keep seeing videos of them like freaking out and like trying to kill someone at a restaurant.

Like have you seen these? I think that we saw the same video and everyone's laughing like ha ha ha ha. As they're trying to like shut it down and they can't and it's like there keeps being more and more videos of them like getting violent and flipping out and I'm like and we want to make more of these combining AI with the robots

is truly the end of us. Truly. Thank you. Well, that was supposed to be light, but listen, I think that we're going to be fine. I have to end every episode like that. And disclaimer, that is just a theory. Well, all right guys go, hopefully enjoyed whatever the hell this was. Let us know the comments. Are you enjoying this new format?

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Oh, he's driving. Stay away from me for sure. I crashed the shit out of Shane's car last week. Bye. Bye.