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We're going to talk about new conspiracy theories.
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Other billionaires funded Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter with an agreement he would intentionally
tank it so it couldn't be used to coordinate protests.
This has the symptoms of a really good conspiracy theory.
Because it's just close enough to be possible and really no way to verify it.
And I could see them doing something like that, to be honest with you.
Yeah, kind of like that movie we talked about in a few episodes back with the two rich guys
who had a bet on whether they could drive the guy out of the apartment or not.
Changing places.
And the bet was for a dollar.
Yeah, the billionaires.
Yeah.
It ruins somebody's life.
Yeah, for a dollar bet.
With Eddie Murphy.
Yeah.
There's apparently a show coming out with Yusuf Rami, Steve Carell.
There's like, basically, they play the four richest billionaires in the world.
And they're at a retreat, like in the mountains somewhere.
And it basically just shows them basically, _______ with the world.
Messing with the world's economy.
The world is their plaything.
Exactly.
Doing whatever they want and watching how it unfolds.
And basically, just having a good time.
Having a hoo-ha about it.
Don't they...
Isn't there talk of some kind of a thing?
The Skull and Crossbones does something like that?
Oh, I don't know.
Once a year they have a retreat in an island that nobody can get to.
Yeah, I've heard about stuff like that, too.
Yeah.
Interesting, isn't it?
Mm-hmm.
Kind of scary if you think about it, if it's true.
Nobody should have that kind of power.
Nobody should, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Mm-hmm.
That's what's scary about it.
Mm-hmm.
So, I mean, if people were...
If people talked about it, it's probably happened.
Mm-hmm.
In this case, I can't say that he's tasked with tanking it.
I think it's just stupid, stupidity on him.
Yeah.
It seems like he was the one that lost the bet.
Well, no.
That he could just do with it what he wants.
Mm-hmm.
He doesn't care if he loses it, if everybody loses their platform or not.
Yeah.
I mean, do you think that he actually...
It doesn't really matter when you get that rich.
I mean, he really couldn't spend that money for the rest of his life.
I remember...
It was probably a YouTube video...
Okay.
...about the obscenely rich.
Okay.
And one of the examples they used was Bill Gates.
Okay.
Yeah.
Now, I think Bill Gates...
Bill Gates was pretty responsible with all of his money, but that was the example they
gave.
They said that if he was walking down the street and $1,000 bills were falling out of
his pockets...
It'd be worth it.
...it wouldn't be worth his time to bend over and pick them up.
Yeah.
I believe it.
I'll follow them around all day long.
I have no question.
Rain, sleet, snow, or shine, I'll be right there behind them.
I don't care if he farted in my face.
I'd be happy to pick that $1,000 bill up.
That's...
Yeah.
But, yeah, I mean, it's just...
I can't imagine being that rich.
Just...
And then there's people starving in the world.
Mm-hmm.
Living filth amongst filth.
You know what I mean?
Like, we say our poor have it bad.
I mean, you go to third world countries, like Africa, you know, people live on $1 a week.
You know what I mean?
Like, people who live off of garbage.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So, it's kind of sad when you think about it.
But the world has been like that ever since there's been people.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know.
I don't think the two of us can fix it here on this podcast.
Oh, I thought that's what we were doing.
Okay.
When the Large Hadron Collider was switched on, it skewed us into an alternate reality
which is a bizarre parallelism.
It's a bizarre parody of the world.
That's kind of scary.
This is a parody of the world.
It seems true.
Yeah.
But...
I mean, things are just crazy.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, even on the usual levels of crazy, it's crazier than...
Crazier than normal.
Yeah, crazier than past craziness.
Mm-hmm.
Well, that's what happens when you...
put someone in an office that looks like a gecko.
You give people a choice.
They choose wrong.
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
I have said this before, and I'll say it again.
Donald Trump is the Boaty McBoat face of politics.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Without a doubt.
Hands down.
Winning by a mile in that.
So...
Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide in prison.
I don't think this is...
This is a new one.
No, I don't think so.
Didn't he die, like, five years ago?
Something like that, yeah.
So why do they think he didn't commit suicide?
Why did...
Oh, I think the idea is that he was...
Someone murdered.
...murdered.
Oh, okay.
...on suicide.
To cover up who was actually on his island?
I suppose it's also possible they could be saying that he's not dead,
and he secreted himself away to some island somewhere.
Yeah.
But...
I can definitely see him committing suicide.
Committing suicide.
Because that was a man who lived in the lap of luxury.
Oh, yeah.
He had three massages a day.
Really?
Wow.
And then to go from that to prison,
where you have no privileges and no control.
Yeah, or anything.
Oh, good.
I could see that driving him to suicide.
Oh, good.
I mean, it saves taxpayers money.
I mean...
I mean, there's one thing I don't really have any pity for,
is...
people who commit sexual assault.
Hmm.
Especially on...
You pity me all the time.
Oh, shut up.
But, you know, preying on teenage girls and stuff like that,
that's just disgusting.
You know what I mean?
Just another case of the rich thinking they can get away with anything they want.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
And he almost did.
Fortunately, he was caught.
Yep.
I'll bet there's a whole lot of...
a lot of men out there who are quaking in their boats,
in their boots,
hoping that they're not the next.
Mm-hmm.
Because give somebody power and they'll abuse it.
Yeah, exactly.
But, yeah, um...
Yeah, I mean, there's no love lost there.
You know, I think it'd be interesting to actually read the list
or read the list of the island and see if it's non-redacted, though.
Actually, but we'll never see it.
I don't understand a word you just said.
Jeffrey Epstein, the reason people are in uproar about him committing suicide,
they wanted him on trial because there's a list of how many people have been on the island.
His quote-unquote island.
And they wanted to know...
Yes, who's been on the island.
And there's been rumors about the rich of the rich.
That's kind of a sick, kinky thing to want to know.
Well, people want to know who to go after.
Like, who's there committing sexual assault with you?
Who's partaking in these...
Oh, okay.
I thought you were talking about the victims.
No, no, no.
Why would I give...
You want to know who the other sexual molesters were.
No, I keep the victims quiet.
You know, I keep them John Does and stuff like that.
But, yeah.
No, find out who the predators are.
Blast their names everywhere.
Yeah, but he not only committed suicide, he probably had a lot of help.
Yeah, so...
Depicting AI as an existential threat is primarily intended to produce legislation that restricts technology.
I don't know.
What do you think?
I can see point A and I can see point B, but I don't know about getting from one to the other.
I mean, it sounds good.
It sounds good to make up a story.
No, I'd be a little nervous all of a sudden.
This stock called SkyNet blew up all of a sudden.
You can buy it real cheap or something like that, but...
Our country does have a history of trying to legislate out science.
Oh, really?
I mean, the only time scientists were really held in large regard was during the moon landing.
Okay.
Not even during the Manhattan Project?
Possibly.
Okay.
But the big industries, I think they fear science as much as they use it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there should be healthy fear of it when it comes to certain things.
Mm-hmm.
So...
Yeah, always go after the intellectuals first.
Yeah.
They're the ones who are going to question things.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Um, Bigfoot has the ability to camouflage like an octopus.
Now, that is a new one.
I've never heard of that before, and it's very interesting.
I've heard that people say that Bigfoot can turn invisible, which is sort of related, I guess.
Mm-hmm.
But they're thinking, you know, they can turn invisible like the predators on Alien.
Mm, okay.
The idea that it can morph its body to...
To blend into the background like an octopus does, it's a cute theory.
Yeah, it's neat.
It's a...
And, you know, unless they can catch one and do an autopsy or something...
How would you know or find out?
Because...
I mean, that's just a fascinating conspiracy theory.
Yeah, it is pretty cool.
It'd be wild if you actually saw it happen.
You know, a couple of guys saw...
a Bigfoot here in Kansas just last week.
Oh, really?
Was there extra fentanyl in their pills, or...
Um, and apparently it was on...
It was walking along a fence, on the inside of a fence.
Okay.
And the property owner is very, very adamant that nobody's going to go on their property and investigate, or...
Really?
Well, they probably don't want it to turn into...
Into a clown circus.
Yeah, probably.
They've got a business to run.
Yeah.
That's interesting, though.
I mean, there's no pictures or anything like that of it, just...
Apparently not.
Yeah, that sucks.
And it doesn't matter if you take a picture of Bigfoot anyway, because everybody knows Bigfoot in reality is blurry.
You're such a dork.
You just sit there all smug, too.
God.
Yeah, good thing you're cute.
The moon is hollow.
Well, yeah, of course.
That's why you've got holes in it like cheese.
You didn't know that?
Just like the Earth's flat.
I don't know if this is new.
Maybe it's just one of those that's come around again.
Yeah, I don't...
Um, when they landed on the moon, they left behind...
They left behind experiments.
Okay.
And some of them were seismic, so they could tell if there were any moonquakes, like there were earthquakes.
But a couple of them, they also set off, like, an explosion to test how fast the sound waves went to the different sensors that they left behind.
And they said the moon rang like a bell for six days.
Really?
Hmm.
Interesting.
So, it is hollow, then?
Who knows?
It's another good one that, um, I mean, it could be true.
Mm-hmm.
Probably not, but how would you find out?
How would you find out until you try to start digging into it?
Mm-hmm.
That's interesting.
And what does it matter if it's hollow or not?
Well, there's got to be some scientific reason for it.
Well, yeah.
I mean, there's people out there saying that it's an alien base, and they actually constructed it.
To keep eyes on us, or...
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Something nefarious.
Mm-hmm.
Look at me pulling out the big words.
How many letters can I...
How many numbers can I get and scrabble for that?
All right.
JFK's shot came from behind because of a Secret Service agent fumbling with a gun while trying to return fire.
Never heard of this.
Another good one.
That's interesting, but...
And it's new.
The autopsies of the president indicated that the bullet came from behind.
Okay.
And the Warren Commission went into all kinds of crazy acrobatics trying to figure out how it would go through Governor Connolly,
and then ricochet back and forth to go in his head and out his head again and up his spine.
Mm-hmm.
And the circus acted, yeah.
This theory that a Secret Service agent hit him by accident makes a lot more sense.
Yeah.
I didn't see that or anything, so that'd be interesting, though.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, how do you explain that to your boss?
And it's amazing how, no matter how old the conspiracy, they can still come up with new theories.
Yeah.
Well, didn't they just release everything on it, finally?
Yeah, I don't think anybody really found anything.
Yeah.
I don't know.
The only article I saw about it was about when the Trump president did it.
Mm-hmm.
Nothing about what they found.
Yeah.
Hmm.
And I would think there'd be people pouring over those papers.
Oh, yeah.
Unless they're trying to hide something up, or there's just really nothing to say.
Or the official record has been altered and we'll never know.
Yeah, that's true, too.
Speaking of conspiracy theories.
What's that?
What did I just say?
Speaking of conspiracy theories.
All right.
The government won't regulate guns because they want minorities to keep killing each other.
This has been around for a long time.
No, it is.
Yeah.
It's not something I heard.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, they've been saying this for, like, social movements and stuff like that.
That's the way the man keeps minorities down.
You know what I mean?
Kind of like putting Musk in charge.
In charge of Twitter, to keep people from organizing.
Yeah.
It's a way to keep the man down.
You know what I mean?
Keep us down and stuff like that.
Well, I had no idea that was an old theory.
Mm-hmm.
It's just like you hear, like, you know, they'll put liquor stores in high-crime, low-income areas to keep people...
Oh, keep them drunk all the time.
Keep them drunk all the time.
Keep them...
So why don't they sell the alcohol and the guns together?
They probably tried.
I mean, they probably...
If they could get away with it...
If they could get away with it, they probably would.
Mm-hmm.
I remember my aunt and uncle had a liquor store.
And they also had a drink shop that was in the parking lot in front of it.
Because legally you couldn't sell alcohol and...
And mixers in the same...
And ice in the same place.
Yeah.
And I think the main business that the mix shop had was...
Was selling pornography, because that was also illegal.
Mm-hmm.
There was one day this wino came in who just smelled awful and wanted to buy the cheapest wine they had and was a few pennies short.
Mm-hmm.
And he thought about reaching in his pocket and paying the rest of it just to get the guy out of there.
Right.
But then he thought, no, that it is illegal.
It's illegal for me to do that.
Mm-hmm.
I'm not going to do that.
And told him to get out of there.
Mm-hmm.
And then the next day, all the other liquor stores had been shut down by the alcohol...
It was ABC.
Because the same guy did the same thing to them and they gave in and...
It was a setup.
They paid it, yeah.
Well, that sucks.
But, hey, you know what?
You're going to play around.
Mm-hmm.
You know what I mean?
So, this can happen.
If that's the playground...
If that's what you want, then you've got to play by those rules.
Play by those rules, exactly.
Mm-hmm.
So, all right.
When...
Let me read this one.
Of course you want to read this one.
When my gallbladder burst, I died and I've been in hell ever since.
That's what it's like living with me, apparently.
And Trump.
And Trump, yes.
No, you better mean Trump.
Well, I think a lot of people...
A lot of people feel the same way.
They think that their gallbladder burst...
I think they feel like they're living in hell, too.
Mm-hmm.
So...
Well, Baehr, I'm sorry you...
I know that one was supposed to be fun, but it's not.
No, it's fun.
I think it's just me.
It's fun.
It's just fun making fun of...
Making it funny about me, saying you live in hell because of me.
So...
Well, Baehr, I know you don't live...
Well...
You're the one that makes hell bearable.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's sweet of you.
Thank you.
So, do you got a joke for us this week, though?
Did you know I won a sarcasm award in 2009?
No, I'm afraid to know.
No, I did not.
You're being sarcastic now.
No, no, I did not.
Get out of here.
So, you're being sarcastic now?
No.
So, did you win one or not?
No.
So, what's the joke?
You're being sarcastic now.
A sarcasm is a precious resource that too often goes wasted.
Get out of here.
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