Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we
have a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm your host Dave,
joined as always by the wonderfully bearded, beautifully handsome faced, just exuding raw
sexual energy, Sarge the Destroyer. What's going on bud?
Oh, hello. Hello. That was, that was a very romantic introduction. I appreciate it.
I should probably start writing down these introductions because I just, I panic and
then I just stumped across all my words. None of them make sense, but it is what it is.
Now I want to introduce Sarge. He probably smells like gun oil.
Yeah. Apparently has a fucking sweet ass big beard. I just feel sick in his arms. All the
ladies love him and all the men want to be him. I think. Yeah. Probably. Sometimes. Most
of the time. What's going on bud? How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I just did some
stand up down in Providence. That was a blast. Hell yeah. Um, place called, um, the Jake
speak easy. It was right next to ladder one three three in Providence, which is a great
bar by the way. I can't say enough good things about it. They had Narragansett, the tall
boys, which I was very happy about. Um, I've been to ladder one three three a couple of
times before most recently for my buddy's bachelor party. It was still many years ago,
but, um, yeah, it was, it was a great show. Great crowd. Um, made some friends. Shout
out to Barry. Uh, hopefully we're going to do some writing, um, and you know, put some
jokes together. Oh yeah. Um, but yeah, overall it was a good time. I got stuck in the world's
worst fucking traffic. There was a country music concert for Zach Bryant and he was doing
news. Who the fuck is Zach Bryant? I don't know, dude. It's that garbage fucking arena
country. You know what I'm talking about? Like it's, it's, uh, it's, I know a lot of
people. No, this is what it is. It's post nine 11 country is what you're about to say.
Is the worst country because country before nine 11 was all like, fuck the government.
I'm going to write music. I'm not going to say all of it was outlaw country, but they
weren't bootlicking fucking red solo cup motherfuckers. Yeah. God, they're the worst man. And then
like, so like the worst part is like, I already hate traffic as an Iraq war veteran. There
are a few things that set me off more than the roads because I did a lot of driving in
Iraq. I didn't do the driving. My driver did the driving. I had a gun in the turret and
that, and that made me feel good because I could shoot things, but I didn't like being
on the road and, um, I hate being on the roads here in America because I can't throw a frozen
water bottle at you when you do something stupid. No, but you can't shoot them. So I
mean, you're in America. I can't, I can't because Massachusetts has really strict laws
and I don't have a gun anyway. What do you mean? Morally? I want one. I feel like it's
more of a more morally. I can morally. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Legally.
It's a problem. Um, so I already hate traffic. I advocate murdering people during road rage
incidents. Don't kill anyone, please. It's not worth your time and effort. Um, so I already
hate country music. I already hate traffic, but I hate country music more than I hate
traffic. And so being stuck in traffic, going down to Providence for a country music concert,
I was incensed. I felt steam coming out of my ears. And so while I'm stuck in traffic,
I look up what this shit show is and, uh, it's Jack Brines, Quentin Tim. Oh, Quentin
time. Okay. First I'm trying to figure out Quentin Tim. Who the fuck is Quentin Tim?
Is that the opening? I just kept saying that. I just kept saying that to calm myself down,
but I was also mad because it's like, you're brand new. You just started country music.
Why is it Quentin time? Are you retiring? You fucking idiot. I just love that you do
bits to yourself to keep yourself from going on a murderous rampage. If I didn't laugh,
someone else would be crying. I was like furious about this whole thing. Like absurdly angry,
but I got there in time. Uh, I, I did my set, my buddy Dave from Tik Tok, uh, set everything
up. He got me on the, he got me in with the crowd and, um, yeah, it was just, it was just
fun overall. And then afterwards, um, uh, me and some of the greatest people in the
world went into a ladder one three three and we had a couple of beers and hung out with
the, uh, the bartender who was very nice to me. Um, are they usually rude to you? Yeah,
usually. It is New England. That's fair. Ordering a beer at a New England bar is like ordering
an egg sandwich at any deli in New York. It's like, hurry up. What do you want? It's fucking
stupid behind you. Fucking what do you, you know what? I'm not, I'm not even, I'm not
even going to take your order. You're going to get what you get. Hurry up. Yeah. Hurry
up. There was nobody in there and she's still like moving along. Yeah. We got shit to do
bud. Oh shit. Well, speaking of, uh, going to bars and stuff, I think it's time that
we should mention something huge for the show. We got a sponsor. Huge. We got a sponsor.
Sorry. We do. Uh, we are sponsored currently now by Narragansett Lager. Uh, thank you so
much to Cam for hooking us up with that. And Wes, uh, my contact and for, uh, setting this
all up. I couldn't be on Stokes. Thank you so much. Narragansett has been a big part
of my life, especially going to like dirty punk shows in New England basements. It's
always like a staple there. Uh, I mean, my dad's been drinking. My dad, uh, has been
drinking Narragansett since he was, since he was young. Yeah. Um, because Narragansett
has been around for a hundred years. So, uh, when you told me, I was like, no way, no way
that they think us to shaved apes, barely shaved, uh, are going to be good enough for
this. I'm going to be honest. Honestly thought it was a scam when I first got that message.
Well, yeah. I mean, how many times have I been, I get emails all the time offering to
sponsor a podcast I haven't even recorded anymore. Like I haven't done episodes of like
this one show that I used to be on 10 years ago. I'm still getting offers for sponsors,
but it's like all nonsense. So when you said they wanted to sponsor, so I was like, no
way. Yeah. Well, my, um, before I even responded to cam from Narragansett, I think I sent you
the screenshot being like, so this fucking happens. I was like, I haven't responded yet.
I don't even know what to say. And you're like, ah, figure it out. We'll do it. We'll
do it. Why not? Um, so yeah, I'm pumped. I'm pumped. That's so awesome. Cause like the
best part I think about Narragansett is like, when you go up to this place up in New Hampshire
called a Zeb's, uh, general store in North Conway. Yeah. I know Zeb's. You can literally
buy 10 signs of Narragansett beer and, uh, you can get like 10 signs where it's like
the old timey 1940s 10 signs of like Narragansett beer and the Boston Red Sox. It's just so
freaking cool. I am absolutely pumped. I did specifically tell cam. I was like, listen,
I'll agree to this. Whatever, whatever your terms are. I don't care. I'll agree to the
only thing I want is one of those big 10 signs. And he said, not a problem. I'm definitely
going to put it up. I cannot wait. I'm so stoked. Um, cause also the other thing is
Narragansett is so consistently good too. Like it's just good beer. Yeah. It's a, I
did find out that, uh, apparently they, they went out of business for like a hot minute
and then they came back. I didn't know that. I feel like I've seen it my entire life. I
don't remember ever going away. You know what I mean? Well, they think they went out of
business twice cause they probably weren't doing much during the, uh, during the prohibition
days. That's fine. I mean, yeah. Um, just in general, it's, it's, it's an awesome, it's
an awesome thing. And I think it suits us very well to dirtnecks from new England. Yeah.
Right. Um, but yeah, I'm pumped. I'm pumped. It's going to be so cool. So thank you Narragansett
for sponsoring the show. Couldn't be more stoked. I mean, I've been drinking this shit
dirt while recording even before this even. I know, I know the minute you held up the
Narragansett can the first time we recorded, I was like, all right, he gets it. Yeah. You
know, you can take the boy out of new England, but you can't take the new England out of
the boy. Frankly, I was shocked. You could get it in, in Pennsylvania. Well, there's
only one store that I can get it at. And it's, it just so happens to be, well, I mean, there's
plenty of stores, but if you know anything about Philly, it's, it's a grid system. So
every street has a stop sign every cross street. So there's probably stores like half mile
from my house takes me 15 minutes to get there. Oh yeah. I mean, yeah. But luckily the, the
grocery store that's literally across the street from my house carries six packs of
the tall boys and they're like $7. So I'm like, why not? You can't go wrong. Exactly.
It tastes better than PBR. That's what I care about. Oh, for sure. All right, Sarge, we
got an episode to go over today and I was, I wanted to do something shark themed for
this episode, just as a, you know, just as a homage to Narragansett being in jobs, crush
it like Quint. But after doing a bunch of research and like trying to formulate an episode
around, cause I was going to do the black demon shark, but like it's, it got into weird
Megalodon territory and I was like, I'm not going to do an episode about dinosaurs. Yeah.
Not yet. No. Well, I mean, I'm sure we'll run out of cryptids and eventually two years
from now we'll have to be doing, it's just me holding up a Lego T-Rex. Yeah. It'll, it'll,
this show is going to get weird when we run out of shit to talk about. Eventually it'll
just be aliens and ghosts cause we'll run out of stuff to talk about. But today, Sarge,
we're going to be headed to Antarctica, also known as the white continent, which in my
opinion would be more fitting a name for like Europe, but, or, you know, America and Canada.
Yeah. But that's not the here and no there. 1950s ish. It's the fifth largest and the
least populated continent on earth. And for good reason, as cold as fuck, the average
temperature being negative 71 degrees Fahrenheit on the interior. The coldest recorded temperature
on earth was recorded there at negative 128 with the coastal regions being not wildly
that much warmer, but can sometimes get to like 50 ish in the summer sometimes. Yep.
And well, Antarctica does hold seven. And, and, and sorry to interrupt, but it allegedly
doesn't exist according to flat earthers. Yeah, I know. I got a whole thing. I got a
whole thing, man. We're not going to go to my tin foil hat. We can just talk about it
for days. We're not going to do that. I think you handled that pretty well on here. Save
that for citizens guy, bro. All right. I mean, we'll eventually cover flat earth on here
too. Save your conspiracy theory nonsense for a different podcast. Um, just, just to
be clear, I believe it exists. I think that, uh, no, no, no, uh, Antarctica, I believe
it is a continent. It's not an ice wall, um, because I am not terribly, terribly stupid.
I fundamental brain damage. Uh, so I don't believe the earth is flat. I just want to
clarify that because frankly, if I was listening to a podcast and somebody was like, Oh, I
think the earth is flat. I'd be like, I think you, um, should see a doctor because your
brain doesn't work. Uh, so I just want to make sure we don't lose any fans because people
think I'm dumb and I'm not dumb. I am dumb, but I'm not flat earth dumb. No, well, Antarctica
does hold 70% of the earth's fresh water. Uh, it's all frozen. Uh, it's this place,
it's just a cold, desolate and harsh place, but yet I mean, it's frozen now. It won't
be much longer than for the moment, but people still fucking go there like tourists and shit,
which I didn't think was allowed. I go on a heartbeat. It turns out you're allowed to
just go there. You have to, I mean, you have to like sign because technically no one owns
a, uh, Antarctica. You have to like hire a guy and shit like that, but apparently there's
a bunch of shit to do there. Allegedly. Uh, you can kayak with whales. You can go scuba
diving. You can visit research facilities. You can even visit deception islands, which
is just the top of an active volcano and littered with whale skeletons and oil drums from the
old processing plants used during the height of whaling in the mid 1900s. And you'll probably
find a couple of human skeletons because, um, we really liked to try and explore it,
but this was back when people were wearing like wool underwear. Yeah. But, uh, but if
that's not metal enough, you can always go visit a blood falls, which is a five story
blood red waterfall spilling over pure white snow. Like it's something out of a David Lynch
movie, but these funds slash macabre tourist destinations aren't what we're here to discuss.
Obviously. Cause if you know anything about the show, it's never anything fun like that.
Uh, we're going to be talking about something much more terrifying than just blood waterfalls.
Uh, we're going to be talking this week about organism 46 dash B, the name given to a creature
that I can only describe as a real life Eldritch God that was quote unquote discovered two miles
underneath the Arctic ice and a subglacial lake known as Lake Vostok named after the
Russian research facility located atop of it. Are you familiar with organism 46 dash
B? If you say yes, I'm going to fucking kill myself. Is this like a, is this like that
Stephen King novel? The thing it's like the inspiration for the thing. Like is Kurt Russell
going to know? No, it's not. It's not. It's nothing like that. Uh, I mean, it's going
to get pretty thingish, I guess. Uh, we'll, we'll get into it. So Vostok station was established
on December 16th, 1957. Whoa, excuse me. Narragansett it burps clean. True. There was no foam, no
froth. It's one of the cleanest burps I've ever had. Now Vostok station was established
on December 16th, 1957 and is one of the most isolated established research stations on
the continent and hosts 30 scientists in the summer and about 15 in the winter. They're
like pretty much there just to do like a lot of ice core drilling and they study changes
in the mag, uh, the earth's magnetosphere among other things. But like ice core drilling
seemed to be like their thing. Uh, once it was discovered that this station was situated
upon a body of liquid water under the ice in 1974, they were like, fuck it. We're, we're
reaching that lake. And this is like at like a bunch of people like maybe you shouldn't
because it hasn't seen light or air for millions of years drilling into it might fuck up a
bunch of shit, but they're like, nah, dude, we're going to do it. And then they're like,
you're out of your mind. I think everybody needs prehistoric bacteria to be alive again.
Yeah. So after almost 30 years of just drilling, like they're fucking Bruce Willis and Armageddon,
they finally broke through the ice and reached the lake on February 5th, 2012. Now there
isn't a specific date for when these scientists had their fateful encounter with egg organism
46 B. Uh, but news of it broke on November 30th, 2016. So it's safe to assume it happened
sometime in that, like four year span, obviously it'd be weird if it happened before and or
after that'd be crazy. That'd be insane. So the story goes that Dr. Anton Padalka, a defecting
Russian scientist, along with the remaining colleagues who were part of the eight man
team tasked with researching the lake that mysteriously went missing for five days, uh,
told authorities in Geneva, Switzerland. First off, if it's in Geneva and you're telling
someone about something never good, it's a war crime. It's a war crime. Uh, you've committed
a war crime about a bizarre and wildly deadly life form that they had found in the lake
dubbed organism 46 dash B, a terrifying and highly intelligent octopus like creature that
had tragically taken the lives of three of the team members. Uh, and all this information
comes from the testimony given by Anton to the Swiss government. So it's kind of like
a transcript kind of thing. It's the only like source of information that we have. You
look upset. You don't look like you're stoked on this as, um, it's one of my best friends
in the world often says you a joke in my ass right now. Uh, but I don't know. How is this
possible? So according to Bidaka, the Russian government didn't want him disclosing this
information to the public with president Putin claiming quote, nothing of scientific interest
and quote had been found. But Anton was like, fuck that. And told the Swiss quote, the discovery
of such unusual life in Lake Vostok was the most important scientific breakthrough in
decades, but we were ordered not to divulge it because mr. Putin sinister schemes end
quote. So, so we're talking about octopus like creature, octopus like creature in very
fresh water in freshwater. Sure. I mean, it's been on, it's gotta be fresh water, right?
Cause it's under Antarctica. I mean, it doesn't make it. I mean, it could be like the, it's
been, hasn't been seen, hasn't seen it evolved millions of years under ice in unfrozen water.
So I mean, the, the idea of that happening, isn't that weird? I just have so many questions.
Well, good thing we're only four minutes into the script. Maybe some of them will fucking
be answered. My brain is much like Antarctica, completely frozen right now. Okay. So what
actually, so what happened? Like what actually happened to these men? Why was there radio
silence from the team for almost five days and how exactly, uh, did these men, the three
men die? Well, Anton went on to tell the Swiss authorities that just as the men near the
lake, all communications with the outside world mysteriously, just like stopped. Uh,
he said, quote, we encountered organism 46 B on day one. Uh, we were conducting a preliminary
dive in our low temperature wetsuits. It disabled our radio, which we later learned to our alarm
was intentional end quote. Uh, now, uh, under the, oh, sorry, real quick. So before we go
further, I need to describe the layout of the land. So there was a diagram of how this
like ice underwater lake works. So there's the ice shelf is like two miles thick. They,
they, they drilled that they drill down into it. There is a little pocket of air and then
the water and there's, there are, there are little banks. Like, so like they, when they
drilled down, they were able to get like onto a bank and they have like a camp set up down
there. I didn't write any of that down. I probably should have. So they went two miles
down. Yeah. They went down there. Them said they didn't, cause this is like modern times.
Like we have drones. I just feel like if I was to go to a place that hasn't been seen
in God knows how long, like I'm sure they sent cameras and down stuff first. Like, I
mean, yeah, but like the camera, you know, you're not going to tell if the camera got
smallpox. You know what I mean? Like you don't know what's down there. You don't know what
kind of weird fucking prehistoric diseases are in this hole in the ground. They're going
to find out. Yeah. They found out the hard way. Yeah. So it is like the Russian way of
doing things. You're like, man, it's dangerous. So let's just kill a bunch of guys and see
if it works. Yeah. So now under the ice and completely helpless, the team could do nothing
but simply try and survive as like this creature pretty much just starts picking them off one
by one, not unlike like a slasher, like in a horror movie, make this a horror movie.
We have to make this a horror movie. Patreon goal. Now remember it's dark as hell down
there with nothing but the light from the hole leading to the lake. And then like flashlights
and lamps that were brought down with the divers like set up their camp and stuff. Now
all they could tell about this creature is that it was massive. It's like 33 feet in
length and having 14 arms, which is too many arms, too big, too many legs. I don't know.
Are they sure there wasn't just two octopi down there? We're going to get to that. But
okay. So yeah, they said it's roughly 33 feet in length. It had 14, maybe 16 arms.
I don't either way. It's bad. I don't know. I don't know what color the creature is. But
what they said is that it had lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. So it's basically
a mass. So it's basically a massive octopus that has evolved under ice for millions of
years and became just a fucking straight up like Lovecraftian nightmare. Now that is fucking
amazing. Even though it has more legs than it knows what to do with it still hunts like
an octopus kind of octopi will normally grab its prey. Sometimes it injects it with some
sort of paralyzing agent. Sometimes it just squeezes the hell out of them and then they
just end up eating it with like it. Yeah. Would they get to beak type? I was not aware
that octopi is it octopi or octopuses? I think it's octopi. I hope so. Because octopuses
just sounds really sexual. It's not. It's not. So everything that I know about my favorite
thing about octopus is that like underwater they like befriend fish and they hunt with
fish and if the fish fucks up, they just smack it. And that that is the most relatable thing
in the world to me. Yeah. It's like having a helper like a kid helping you fix the car
and he doesn't hold the flashlight in the right place. You just fucking whack him real
quick. And then backhand him. They'll never hold the flashlight wrong again. Honestly,
my son would probably punch me so hard in the testicles if I did that, that I wouldn't
be able to breathe for a week. He is a, the young one is too fast. I'd never catch him.
But the middle one is a stout fucking brick of a child. And he is, he has the kind of
strength that is just unnatural for a boy his age. And I'm pretty sure if he backhanded
me in the berries, I wouldn't have him anymore. They just erupted. Just turned a dust immediately.
Yeah. He doesn't know this and he doesn't listen to this podcast, but I'm terrified
of his strength. He's got the strength of like a, like a fucking a full grown like chimpanzee
that'll just fucking rip your arms off if you need to. It just beat me with my own arms.
It's terrifying. Yeah. Some octopus offices obviously are like poisonous. Clearly there
are a bunch of, I had no idea that they did that. I, yeah. So, so like, they'll like paralyze
and or just like grab it with those tentacle legs and fucking eat the shit out of it. But
anyways, organized or organism 46 dash B he likes to do things a little bit different.
According to Dr. Podlaka organism 46 dash B is quote, able to paralyze prey at a distance
of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water from an organ similar to its ink
sack. Tragically, my colleague and lifelong friend, Dr. Vin dog, Redov was killed this
way. He was treading water wearing a blissful smile as the organism approached him. He watched,
we watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off his head and then pop the remains
into his mouth. All right. All right. So I'm calling bullshit. Sorry. Just let me get through
the story. No, no suspense. You cannot swim in that water. It's fucking freezing down
there. They have, they have a, uh, uh, west. Who's on? Bro. Sorry. What did I say before
that we recorded? You can blame tick tock for this. So anyway, so it hunts kind of like
an octopus, but that's not the only thing that this creature can do that's similar.
Uh, it can also camouflage tons of cephalopods have the ability. They can change color and
texture to blend in the surrounding environments. They can look like coral, sand, whatever you,
whatever they want. They can just fucking do it. Well, yeah, some can even change a
shape to look kind of like other animals like sea stakes or stingrays. Well, organism 46
dash B takes this ability and just makes it so much fucking worse. Uh, the good doctor
told the Swiss that it had shaped shift, shaped itself into the form of a human diver. And
that quote, we thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us and scuba scuba gear.
By the time the closest scientists realized what it was, it had grabbed him and tore him
to bits and quote, but wait, Sarge, hold on before you say anything, there's more. So
you know how like octopus tentacles are basically their own brains. Like if you chop off a
limb, it'll still move and shit and act independent. Yeah. Yeah. Well again, 46 dash B can do that,
but more horrifying, uh, quote, after our sole female researcher chopped one of the
arms off with an ice ax, the separate limb yanked the weapon out of her hands. The night
that night, the arm slithered onto the icy bank where we were sleeping and strangled
her. So I thought honestly, not exactly the direction I thought this was going to be like,
no, I thought it was going to be a far more Japanese approach. So I got nervous. I'm actually
more relieved that she was killed by it. No one went the Japanese have done with tentacles
in the past. No, somehow these fucking nerds were able to outsmart the creature and actually
were able to capture it in a tank. Now after returning to the surface, three people lighter
and one Leviathan fucking heavier. Uh, they assumed they were going to be recognized as
heroes in the scientific and international community, but the director of the project
or the whole be plugged and told the world that they didn't find anything down there.
And in fact, we didn't even send anyone down there at all. Uh, with the head of the station
saying quote, there's nothing much down there. I can assure you end quote. And at the plugging
of the whole, uh, it was just like standard routine pretty much now, dr. Berdolka fled
Russia in July of that year after he discovered the, that Russia was planning on putting the
octopus, uh, putting the creature into military use stating quote, some species of octopus
lay 200,000 eggs. Imagine if they were deposited in reservoirs and or lakes end quote. Now
the Russian bureau of truthful information, which I found out is kind of a real thing.
That's a real thing. It's fucking your of truthful information. First of all, don't
ever trust anything coming from a place called everything we say is true. Comrade, everything
is true. He responded to the whistleblower's claims saying quote, it sounds like something
you might see on one of your science fiction TV channels. The cold war is over. My friends,
if our scientists made a discovery of such magnitude, do you seriously doubt we would
share it with the world? End quote. Yeah, obviously I don't, I don't believe that for
a second.
As someone who grew up in the eighties, there is absolutely no way I would trust a Russian
government official to tell me anything truthful. Yeah. I, to this day I still don't. Yeah.
Oh, I mean, like to this day. Yeah. When I think of like Russian information, I'm reminded
of of that guy during the Iraq war invasion when he's like, there's no tanks. And then
there's like eight tanks in the background driving them. The Americans aren't here. There's
like an American guy like, excuse me, I got to just put up this flag. I don't believe
it. Well, I want it to be real. I absolutely 100% wanted to be real. But you know what
ruined it for me when they went swimming. All right. So Sarge, this whole episode, I
will say has been a test of media literacy. So this is all bullshit through and through.
So I, so like I said, I saw this on Tik TOK and went down a rabbit hole and was like a
thousand percent invested. People truly believe the stories. I watched thousands of maybe
not thousands, but a bunch of videos on this. I even went to like blogs like I for sure
believe that like if Russia found something like this, like they for sure wouldn't tell
anyone and there would be some sort of most believable part of this whole story. Yeah.
But once I reached the bottom of the well, I learned that this is actually a satirical
article written by science fiction author C Michael Forsyth, who also writes for weekly
world news now. Oh, I love it. Now. I love it. Now. The reason I think people saw this
quote unquote article and believed it to be true is because it took me for fucking ever
to find the original source of this fucking story. That's fair. That's when you look,
when you look this thing up, it just brings you to different blogs talking about it, YouTube
videos, Tik TOKs, none of which give you the source of it. You can clearly tell they're
getting it from just like another source that regurgitated the information. But once I found
it, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, it explicitly states that it's satire, which
funnily enough, those other blogs failed to mention. And I wanted to, yeah. So I wanted
to cover it because just like kind of like Slender Man or like any of those other like
internet things like this, like this has kind of become like it's gone outside the internet,
if that makes sense. Like it's not like it's no longer contained to just like the funny
blogs and memes and stuff like that. Like, in it, like I said, I wanted to be more like
a, how I word this, uh, like if you don't take the time to do your research or provide
sources, shit like this slips through and like gullible people or impressionable people will
believe it. And it kind of murks the waters of actual quote unquote actual cryptids. You
know what I mean? Things like this pass through all the time. It's just like on TikTok where
like people on like they'll just fucking post anything on there and then someone will see
that they'll do their own video and just all this. And like I said, I, this, I went through
a whole rabbit hole and I was a hundred percent convinced. Like I didn't think it was like
real real per se, but like there was shit in there. Like I was like, fuck it. This could
be, but then I found the article. Honestly, man, like the thing that kills me the most
is that I am so susceptible to crazy stuff because I want it to be real, you know, like
I would, you have no idea how much joy it would bring me if somebody had actually found
big foot, you know, but I will, I will say this, you fucking called this eight minutes
in you knew I, but I think, I think that goes to say, like I said, like I know like this
is a case of media literacy. Like if things get, things gets blown around and no one ever
looks for the source of the information that came from, it took me forever to find it.
It made it harder because people just kept sharing the story and like no one's crediting
the actual source of where it came from. It just keeps spreading and spreading. So we
forever to find where it came from. And I think not to get political, but like this
shit, like this is just a cryptic story. It doesn't matter in the greater context of things,
but I think media literacy is the thing that we as a society have just fucking just gave
up on. Like gone, it's gone. And so, and the, the fact that it's Russian makes it even funnier
because like that's what, that's the thing that the only thing that added legitimacy
to this whole thing is that like Russia was being the bad guy. It was like, Oh yeah, Russia,
you're terrible. Russia's like, no, what I'm not terrible here. Smell this, a rag. Yeah.
It's just like, I fully, I fully believe that people believe this because it's, it's got
all of the elements, a government agency that's hiding the truth, a mysterious place like
Antarctica, the fact that they called it organism, whatever the fuck they called it. All of that
stuff just draws people in. And one of the things that I try to impart on my kids to
the point where they probably hate me. And this is probably why they have all figured
out that the Santa Claus isn't real is because I taught them to be skeptical. Yeah. Because
when I was little, I believed everything. I thought, you know, I thought everything
was like a conspiracy and that, you know, all the shit was real. And it was only that
like feeling of when I found out it wasn't real that like, Oh my God, I'm such a moron
for even believing this. And, but the thing is like, you're not a moron for believing
this stuff because we want there to be wonder and like amazing shit in the world. Yeah.
But you had, but you had the ability just like me, like, cause I remember when I was
a kid, like I would watch like, I remember the, the way I got introduced to like, I didn't
even know it was him when it happened, but I watched Alex Jones's documentary about going
into Bohemian Grove. Yeah. And that was, that was fucking what? 2001? Yeah, man. And like
later to find out that like it was all faked. None of it was real. Like, like, but you want
that wondered like, yeah, but like, I get it. It's a, it's comforting. It's comforting
because when something bad happens, it's much more comforting to think someone was in control.
But the thing is someone caused it. Yeah. Both of us realized once we got like an inkling
of truth behind the story that we were finding like, Oh, maybe I should look into this. And
we do. And then we realized, Oh, it's all nonsense. Like we, there's a difference between
us and someone who just believes the story that's being told. And then when provided
with facts against it, or just like, well, no, you're just part of the plot to keep.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Absolutely. This, I feel like this is one of those things
because I've seen people, like I said, Tik Tok videos, comments are like, this has been
debunked and like, Oh, well yeah, but that's just Russia trying to, or like the Russian
government or the American government trying to like, you know, put it to rest. And even
though this is just a cryptid like thing and yeah, murky is the, it murks the whole thing
about crypt is being real. This is another fake thing. This is just like media literacy
for like the smallest thing. Like we need it broader and bigger. Like it's all bad.
Just always read your sources, always find your sources and then check the source and
then think, what does this source have to gain? Because 90% of the time when you find
something that's amazing is bullshit. Like when we had that weird object that was floating
through space and everyone thought it was like an alien spaceship and it turned out
to just be a fucking random rock that happened to get knocked around like a billiard ball
in space and just flew through our solar system. Well, there's also, there's also the, the
black night satellite, which I think was just a blanket. It was just a blanket that got
sucked out of the space station or something like that. There's a book that I'm reading
right now by a guy named Lee McIntyre and it's called how to talk to a science denier.
I was actually just looking it up now because I wanted to make sure I got the name right.
That sounds awful. I don't want to talk to a science denier. He talks about, but he talks
about how when people really believe something, you can't sway them with facts. No. And so
if somebody already believes something, you have to kind of guide them. And I'm still
reading it. So unfortunately I can't give you the fucking Cliffs notes right now, but
he said that regardless of your political ideation, ideology, not ideation, regardless
of your political ideology, it, you are more willing to accept misinformation if it furthers
your narrative. And one of the things that I was really lucky to be able to do is when
I started going to college, I started really, really checking sources and getting very analytical
about about a source and where the information came from and what that information actually
means. There's also a YouTuber named Ryan Macbeth. I recommend everybody check him out
because he's really good at breaking down misinformation and explaining. He actually
talked about Tik Tok, especially he has this whole thing on how Tik Tok is basically a
cyber weapon. Yeah, it's not good. And so yeah, both sides are using it as a propaganda
tool. And so for me, the only way that I keep sane with misinformation is by viewing it
as a puzzle that I need to solve. And so when I hear something, I look into it and sometimes
I'm let down. Sometimes I'm disappointed because the misinformation is actually not misinformation.
It's a real terrible thing that that's something I agree with or like is doing. And I have
to accept that it's actually happening. Yeah. Like, for instance, a great example is the
debate. Joe Biden fucking tanked it and broke my heart. It was terrible to admit. But I
can't lie because then I'm just no better than any of the misinformed people. Donald
Trump was aware. Yeah, he was lying his ass off the whole time. Things I knew were a lie,
he was saying. But Joe Biden tanked the debate. He sucked. He was it was like he was. It's
like he wasn't even there. But the larger point I'm trying to make is that don't trust
anything. Yeah, don't trust any information until you can verify it for yourself as far
as you possibly can. And you're still going to get taken in. I've been taken in by shit
even now. But I want cryptids to be real. And that's why I'm so skeptical. Also, I knew
that they couldn't swim in that water because a deadliest catch. What does that do anything?
Because even with an immersion suit, you can you won't live very long in freezing cold
water. Well, I mean, they had a bank to sleep on. You were like, oh, he was just swimming
in the water. And I was like, no, he wasn't. He would have died. That's fine. Don't worry
about it. He said he had a wetsuit. That was like, no way. They said it was a hold on.
What did you say it was? It was a cold immersion sweat suit. What wetsuits? I don't know. You
don't really take leisurely swims in those things. I don't think they were nothing about
this was literally but also none of it's real. So anyways, but they never they never explained
how Organism 46 dash B somehow cut off their communications. Yeah. But also the other thing
that I was like when they said that it could shape shift to look like a scuba diver. I'm
like, look, cuttlefish and octopus, octopi, octo things are extremely talented, but they're
not that good. True. I'm going to take a look at one guy in a scuba suit and like, I can
do that. Yeah. But yeah, for seeing it for the first time and just perfectly just being
like, yeah. But yeah, so only one organism on earth that can assume a form after looking
at it. And that is Meryl Streep. Thank you very much. Okay. All right. Sorry. Greatest
actress on earth. So anyway, so the point of the story is, you know, just don't be a
dumb dumb. Just, you know, don't trust anything, man. Find a source because a lot of these
fucking tech talk pages are they're just blatantly not good. But anyway, sorry. If you want to
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