WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.339 You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party. 00:00:40.500 --> 00:00:42.479 Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.960 Cryptic Cocktail Party, a show where we have 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.020 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:47.799 into the unknown. I'm your host, Dave, joined 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:50.200 as always by my wonderful co -host, Sarge. How's 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.979 it going, Sarge? I am fucking fantastic. Fantastic? 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.659 Yeah, why not? I don't know. You know? It gets 00:00:58.659 --> 00:01:01.859 better than trash, I guess. Yeah, I mean, the 00:01:01.859 --> 00:01:06.379 world is on fire around me, but I'm okay. Well, 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.120 I'm glad you're doing okay. despite i'm disappointed 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.180 the rapture didn't happen there were some annoying 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:13.000 dickheads i was really hoping i wouldn't have 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.420 to deal with anymore dude i was that was a fun 00:01:16.420 --> 00:01:18.620 day for me i just kept going up to different 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:20.439 co -workers and be like oh man surprised you're 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:26.959 still here it was good here's your god has forsaken 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:32.219 you oh yeah that was i'm trying i feel like I 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:33.920 mean, this isn't the first rapture I've lived 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.959 through. Oh, no, there's been so many. Yeah, 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.719 but I mean, like, as far as, like, publicly well 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.260 -known raptures, I feel like this is one of the 00:01:44.260 --> 00:01:46.640 bigger ones. Yeah, and, you know, it kind of 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.500 came out of nowhere. I feel like nobody was talking 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:50.739 about it until, like, a couple weeks ago. Yeah, 00:01:50.780 --> 00:01:53.400 I remember one of the first raptures I lived 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.920 through. I forget what the group was, but there 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.959 was, like, billboards and shit for it. Oh, yeah, 00:01:58.060 --> 00:02:01.689 and I was so happy when it didn't happen. I was 00:02:01.689 --> 00:02:05.230 just eating their tears. Was it like the late 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:08.349 90s? It had to be like the 2000s maybe? Yeah, 00:02:08.349 --> 00:02:11.229 I think it was like mid -2000s actually. And 00:02:11.229 --> 00:02:13.830 they sold all their shit, which is hilarious 00:02:13.830 --> 00:02:18.509 to me. You fucking idiots. You morons. I don't 00:02:18.509 --> 00:02:21.949 even feel bad for you. You're so stupid that 00:02:21.949 --> 00:02:24.710 a rapture was coming and your first thought was, 00:02:24.870 --> 00:02:27.469 better get some money. Yeah, what are you doing? 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:30.550 What do you need it for? Fucking idiocy. And 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:32.110 they're fucking over everybody else because they're 00:02:32.110 --> 00:02:33.590 like, oh, it's going to be the rapture. You can't 00:02:33.590 --> 00:02:36.129 use that shit anyway. Dummies. Yeah, but they 00:02:36.129 --> 00:02:38.550 can't use the money. Right. So what are they? 00:02:38.590 --> 00:02:40.069 So what are they? Why are they? Just give it 00:02:40.069 --> 00:02:43.069 away. A good godly Christian. None whatsoever. 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:45.430 Just give it away. Dude, Facebook Marketplace 00:02:45.430 --> 00:02:48.270 was popping off in the weeks leading up to it. 00:02:48.270 --> 00:02:51.009 So good. I want I wanted to buy all this shit 00:02:51.009 --> 00:02:53.370 and then sell it back to them at a stupidity 00:02:53.370 --> 00:02:56.479 mock up. Yeah. Didn't someone sell their house 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.460 and the girl who bought it was like, I don't 00:03:00.460 --> 00:03:03.199 give a fuck. I'm not selling it back to her. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:08.719 Yeah, right? Why would you? The fucking Bible 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:10.680 says you're not going to know when it's going 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.699 to happen. Well, yeah, but I mean, there's context 00:03:13.699 --> 00:03:18.680 clues in the texts, right? No. Oh. I don't think 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.680 so. I think the Bible specifically says no man 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:25.639 shall know the... uh what is it the the hour 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.979 or whatever i don't know yeah i'm just but like 00:03:29.979 --> 00:03:31.919 when your own book tells you that it's not going 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:33.759 to be possible for you to know when the rapture 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.439 is coming yet you still keep expecting it to 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.759 happen well grifter's got a grift baby we all 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.580 know how that and like it wouldn't be the first 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:45.360 time that christians ignored the bible as they 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:50.020 eat lobster and fucking cut their hair i don't 00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:53.409 know what you're talking about uh It's in Leviticus. 00:03:53.569 --> 00:03:55.669 You're not allowed to wear blended cotton. I 00:03:55.669 --> 00:04:00.090 know. I'm just fucking with you. Don't mansplain 00:04:00.090 --> 00:04:02.710 the Bible to me, all right? I'm Christiansplaining 00:04:02.710 --> 00:04:07.590 it to you. Is that a play on words? Yes, it is. 00:04:07.729 --> 00:04:11.629 I love this. I love this for us. I like that 00:04:11.629 --> 00:04:13.590 the religion that I'm named after is the one 00:04:13.590 --> 00:04:19.129 I hate the most. All right, Sarge. Well, luckily 00:04:19.129 --> 00:04:25.379 today's episode is not about... or war or grifting. 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:27.839 Maybe some, I don't, no, there's no grifting 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.240 in this, I don't think. What the hell are we 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.379 supposed to be talking about then? You cut out 00:04:31.379 --> 00:04:34.120 all the fun shit. I know. There's also no mobs 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.699 of armed angry villagers in this. God damn it. 00:04:37.699 --> 00:04:39.120 All right, well, I'll see you guys next week. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.279 I know. I mean, but this is something that you 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.620 will enjoy. I think we've talked about it enough 00:04:45.620 --> 00:04:48.100 on the show. And I did say that we were going 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:50.279 to eventually do an episode on it. So I figured 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.519 what better time than now? What better place 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:56.120 than here? Exactly. All right. All right. So 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:59.879 memories, Sarge. We all have them. I'm sure you 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:03.459 remember things from time to time. Periodically. 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:06.420 Yeah. But how do we know if what we're remembering 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:08.939 is the right memory we're remembering? Because 00:05:08.939 --> 00:05:11.699 remember, memories can be tricky. And sometimes 00:05:11.699 --> 00:05:15.500 our memories or what we think were. what we think 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:17.560 we're remembering aren't memories at all. Or 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.120 maybe they were. Oh, I know what this episode's 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:20.959 about. God damn it, you son of a bitch, I'm in. 00:05:21.139 --> 00:05:25.220 But now, you fucked me up, Sarge. I'm sorry, 00:05:25.379 --> 00:05:27.720 I'm sorry. I just got really excited. Well, let 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:29.459 me get through at least a paragraph before you 00:05:29.459 --> 00:05:32.459 interrupt me. All right, all right. I thought 00:05:32.459 --> 00:05:34.560 you were done because you paused. Because I had 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.980 to breathe. Well, that's your fault. You shouldn't 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:40.420 be breathing. Breathe in your own time. This 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:43.540 is cryptid cocktail party time. Yeah, so I get... 00:05:43.899 --> 00:05:46.319 Talking Mandela effect, you fucking dickhead. 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:50.360 I didn't say it. Yeah, but you let me get to 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.240 the thing. Just don't get to the thing. We'll 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.100 take it from the top. No. It's the magic of editing. 00:05:55.180 --> 00:06:01.639 We're past that now. All right. So everyone listening 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.980 is, I'm sure, one way or another, familiar with 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:06.379 the Mandela effect. Except for Nelson Mandela. 00:06:06.379 --> 00:06:09.180 He died. For real this time. He was alive when 00:06:09.180 --> 00:06:12.180 the Mandela effect started. Right. No, I know. 00:06:12.490 --> 00:06:14.790 So he had to have been aware of it at some point. 00:06:14.850 --> 00:06:20.569 Maybe he was also like 90. So, yeah. But you're 00:06:20.569 --> 00:06:23.189 familiar with it, right? Obviously. Oh, yeah, 00:06:23.250 --> 00:06:27.269 of course. I'm a victim of it. Okay. Well, maybe 00:06:27.269 --> 00:06:29.170 we'll find some new ones in here for you to be 00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:33.189 a victim of. So I figured what we would do is 00:06:33.189 --> 00:06:35.110 we go back to where it started, go over some 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:37.350 of the more well -known examples, so on, so forth, 00:06:37.470 --> 00:06:40.079 theories. All the stuff that you've come to know 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:41.540 and love when we talk about these types of things 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:44.680 on Crypto Cocktail Party. So, you with me? Oh, 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.860 yeah. I'm ready. Okay. Also, big shout out to 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:50.660 Daw from Logo Lore with Daw. I got a lot of information 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:53.220 from his TikToks because they're bite -sized 00:06:53.220 --> 00:06:55.540 pieces of information that I can easily digest. 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:58.740 So, yeah. So, this whole Mandela Effect conspiracy, 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.459 I guess you would call it. It was all started 00:07:00.459 --> 00:07:04.759 by a paranormal researcher. Go figure. Named 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:08.500 Fiona Broom. fiona had a very vivid and very 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:11.420 specific memory of nelson mandela dying in prison 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:14.220 in the 1980s and it wasn't just some like vague 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:16.680 thing that she thinks she may have heard in passing 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.240 and it just kind of stuck with her like she remembered 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.759 this shit in vivid detail like she recalled watching 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.980 tv coverage of a massive state funeral somber 00:07:24.980 --> 00:07:28.339 newscasters reporting the event live massive 00:07:28.339 --> 00:07:30.560 crowds of mourners and speeches delivered by 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.620 world leaders and she even remembered like the 00:07:32.620 --> 00:07:35.050 way she felt during it and the way like the world 00:07:35.050 --> 00:07:37.490 felt like the collective grief felt by everyone 00:07:37.490 --> 00:07:40.430 that, you know, the type that comes when any 00:07:40.430 --> 00:07:43.910 beloved figure like Mandela passes away. Right. 00:07:43.949 --> 00:07:47.750 The only problem here is none of that ever happens. 00:07:48.310 --> 00:07:51.250 Right. Nelson Mandela didn't die in prison in 00:07:51.250 --> 00:07:53.810 the 80s. He was released in 1990. He went on 00:07:53.810 --> 00:07:56.610 to lead South Africa as its first black president. 00:07:56.750 --> 00:08:01.220 And he did. He did eventually die in 2013. At 00:08:01.220 --> 00:08:06.060 the ripe old age of 95. Which is crazy. Considering 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:08.120 I'm sure many people were trying to kill him. 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.120 And he just fucking. Was like nah dude. I'm going 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.120 to ride this shit out. I'm going to outlive all 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:17.339 of you. So good for him man. But back to Fiona. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.560 So in 2009. After learning Mandela was very much 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.279 still alive at the time. And hadn't in fact died 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.079 nearly 30 years earlier. She was at a science 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.100 fiction and fantasy convention. Because of course. 00:08:30.810 --> 00:08:33.490 And she brought up her memory of Mandela dying, 00:08:33.570 --> 00:08:35.809 and to her surprise, she discovered that she 00:08:35.809 --> 00:08:38.769 wasn't the only one. Other people at the conference 00:08:38.769 --> 00:08:41.149 said that they remembered exactly what Fiona 00:08:41.149 --> 00:08:43.789 did, the same funeral coverage, the same speeches, 00:08:43.950 --> 00:08:46.429 even the same sense of loss. And these weren't 00:08:46.429 --> 00:08:49.250 like half -formed thoughts and bits and pieces 00:08:49.250 --> 00:08:51.070 of information these people were recounting. 00:08:51.090 --> 00:08:54.169 These were like crystal clear memories of an 00:08:54.169 --> 00:08:59.639 event that never actually happens. Right. So 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:01.419 after this realization that she wasn't alone 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:03.879 in having this false memory of an event that 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.759 didn't happen, Fiona decided to do some digging. 00:09:06.860 --> 00:09:10.000 She created a website that documented these bizarre 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.000 cases of large sections of the population misremembering 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.740 the same detail or event. The only thing she 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:19.200 needed now was a name for this phenomenon. And 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.120 since the whole thing started with the false 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.480 memory of Mandela dying, she dubbed it... the 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.639 Mandela effect. So if you're wondering where 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.480 the name came from, it came from a paranormal 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.840 researcher who went to a science fiction and 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.159 fantasy convention, which is how all good names. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.539 I kind of feel like Mandela got the short end 00:09:39.539 --> 00:09:41.379 of the fucking stick here because there are people 00:09:41.379 --> 00:09:43.960 in the world right now that only know his name 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.259 because of someone's broken brain. Yeah. And 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:51.320 not for like the amazing things he did when he 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.789 was alive. Yeah, no, it's, um, A man who genuinely 00:09:54.789 --> 00:10:00.470 suffered for the good of human beings throughout 00:10:00.470 --> 00:10:04.789 Africa. And everyone's just like, well, no, I 00:10:04.789 --> 00:10:07.309 thought it was Baron Stain Bears. He's much like 00:10:07.309 --> 00:10:13.570 Lou Gehrig's in that way. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, 00:10:13.610 --> 00:10:15.970 but once the site launched, submissions started 00:10:15.970 --> 00:10:17.570 pouring in from all around the world. People 00:10:17.570 --> 00:10:19.889 began sharing other examples of things that they 00:10:19.889 --> 00:10:22.789 were absolutely 100 % sure they remember correctly, 00:10:23.009 --> 00:10:25.070 only to find out that they've been wrong this 00:10:25.070 --> 00:10:27.889 whole time. From small things like brand logos 00:10:27.889 --> 00:10:30.309 to movie quotes to things like massive historical 00:10:30.309 --> 00:10:34.429 events like the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Yeah. 00:10:34.470 --> 00:10:36.970 Over time, these shared false memories started 00:10:36.970 --> 00:10:40.409 piling up. And for some, like... who were experiencing 00:10:40.409 --> 00:10:43.210 it, it was kind of unsettling and it left them 00:10:43.210 --> 00:10:45.909 thinking like, if so many of us remember something 00:10:45.909 --> 00:10:49.590 in the exact same way, how could it not be true? 00:10:49.730 --> 00:10:51.389 Because like I said, it wasn't just the death 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:53.570 of Mandela that people were misremembering. There 00:10:53.570 --> 00:10:56.169 are dozens of examples of people experiencing 00:10:56.169 --> 00:10:59.850 this effect. You ready to dive into some of these 00:10:59.850 --> 00:11:03.610 examples? Let's fucking go. I love this shit. 00:11:03.789 --> 00:11:06.169 So for instance, the most famous being the Berenstain 00:11:06.169 --> 00:11:08.529 Bears versus the Berenstain Bears. So I'm not 00:11:08.529 --> 00:11:12.399 going to lie. This one fucked me up because I 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.480 grew up reading those books and I would have 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.480 sworn like gun to my head that it was spelled 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:20.799 Berenstain like Einstein with like an E in it. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.960 But it turns out it's actually spelled Berenstain 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.019 with an A, which is just preposterous and I refuse 00:11:26.019 --> 00:11:28.120 to believe. No, it's Berenstain. I don't care 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:30.360 what anybody says. That's how I remember it. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.080 Yeah, and it always will be. The other more well 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.919 -known one is the 90s genie movie Shazam featuring 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.379 famed comedian Sinbad. Yep. With this, people 00:11:39.379 --> 00:11:41.740 remember, like, the cover, the plot. Some claim 00:11:41.740 --> 00:11:44.120 they even remember specific scenes, even though 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.240 I've never heard anyone even recount a single 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.340 scene from it. But there's no movie that this... 00:11:50.340 --> 00:11:52.399 I mean, there's no evidence that this movie ever 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.460 existed. Like, there's no copies of the VHS. 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.919 Sinbad has said that he hasn't done a movie like 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.480 this. Right. No clips online or, like, syndication 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.320 on TV. Nothing. You can't find it on demand. 00:12:04.259 --> 00:12:08.019 This one, honestly... I never believed this one. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:10.620 I don't remember a movie, but I do have people 00:12:10.620 --> 00:12:12.320 who have told me that they specifically remember 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.220 this movie, and I think they're crazy. See, the 00:12:14.220 --> 00:12:16.100 thing is, with this one, you remember in the 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:19.240 90s when everyone wore those stupid pants? Yeah. 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:22.559 That's what I think it came from. So I didn't 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.039 put this in the script, but I know where it came 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.320 from. It's a conflation between the movie Kazam 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.840 with Shaq, but also Sinbad did dress up as a 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.340 genie one time. It was for like a telethon or 00:12:33.340 --> 00:12:37.509 something. It was like a... bit for a thing in 00:12:37.509 --> 00:12:40.769 the 90s but we'll get into theories and all that 00:12:40.769 --> 00:12:43.809 stuff later okay um then you have the cornucopia 00:12:43.809 --> 00:12:46.409 in the fruit of the looms logo which never existed 00:12:46.409 --> 00:12:48.649 you also have this one fucking got me for sure 00:12:48.649 --> 00:12:51.809 you also have uh the monopoly man having a monocle 00:12:51.809 --> 00:12:55.169 that never existed really oh yeah that's not 00:12:55.169 --> 00:12:58.980 real um Looney Tunes, spelled Tunes, T -U -N 00:12:58.980 --> 00:13:01.299 -E -S, like in music and not Tunes as in cartoons, 00:13:01.539 --> 00:13:03.559 which you think it would be the logical fucking 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.139 spelling because it's a cartoon. All right, here's 00:13:06.139 --> 00:13:08.700 one for you, Sarge. Instead of telling you what 00:13:08.700 --> 00:13:10.700 it is, I'm going to ask you this. What is the 00:13:10.700 --> 00:13:13.399 question that the Wicked Queen asks the mirror? 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.480 Who's the fairest of them all? Well, like, what's 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.639 the beginning part of that? Mirror, mirror on 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:23.559 the wall. Wrong, Sarge. Really? The words mirror 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.419 mirror is never said in that movie. It's magic 00:13:26.419 --> 00:13:31.720 mirror on the wall. Oh, okay. That's just me 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.960 being stupid. But people remember it being mirror 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.740 mirror. And everyone still says it as mirror 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:39.460 mirror. Yeah, it's all repeated that way. It's 00:13:39.460 --> 00:13:41.759 the same thing with... Oh, well, you might cover 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.940 this, so I'll hold my tongue until you... Is 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:47.360 it the Luke, I am your father? Yeah. I didn't 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.620 put that in there because that's whatever. Another 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:52.139 movie quote. This one kind of got me. that people 00:13:52.139 --> 00:13:54.120 claim to be a Mandela effect is in Silence of 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.480 the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter never says hello, 00:13:57.580 --> 00:14:00.779 Clarice. The line is actually good morning, Clarice. 00:14:01.899 --> 00:14:06.779 Really? Yeah. Damn. That one fucked me up because 00:14:06.779 --> 00:14:07.679 I could have sworn it was hello Clarice. That 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.539 fucks me up too. Yeah, not great. And the list 00:14:10.539 --> 00:14:12.980 goes on and on and on. So what's going on here? 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:15.700 Why are we misremembering these things? And why 00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:18.600 is it that so many people are also misremembering 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:21.600 these things? Well, here's the thing. One of 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.960 the biggest misconceptions around memory is people 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.240 think it acts like a camera, that our brains 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.679 perfectly capture events and replay them just 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:32.019 as they happened only later. The reality of it, 00:14:32.059 --> 00:14:34.559 though, is that memory is reconstructive, not 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.120 reproductive. Every time you remember something, 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.120 your brain is pretty much piecing it together 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.019 like a puzzle. And oftentimes, pieces are missing 00:14:43.019 --> 00:14:45.159 from that puzzle. So your brain fills in the 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.879 missing gaps with whatever it just arbitrarily 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.570 decides fits in that hole. Right. Over time, 00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:54.230 those filled in details start to become just 00:14:54.230 --> 00:14:58.009 as real as the original one. So when you or someone 00:14:58.009 --> 00:15:00.669 else swear the Monopoly man had a monocle, it's 00:15:00.669 --> 00:15:02.889 because your mind is combining the memory of 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:05.250 Milburn money bags, which I learned is the Monopoly 00:15:05.250 --> 00:15:08.450 man's full Christian name, with similar images 00:15:08.450 --> 00:15:12.009 of rich cartoon men you've seen elsewhere, like 00:15:12.009 --> 00:15:14.909 Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald Smith, better 00:15:14.909 --> 00:15:17.049 known as Mr. Peanut. I also learned that that's 00:15:17.049 --> 00:15:21.419 his Christian name. Don't assume Mr. Peanut's 00:15:21.419 --> 00:15:23.440 religion. That's his government name. Whatever. 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.080 But he has a monocle, so you might just be conflating 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.740 everything together. So our memories are reconstructed 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:33.799 and pretty much just can't be trusted. Another 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.039 mechanism our brain uses in our memory -making 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.340 arsenal is something called confabulation. This 00:15:40.340 --> 00:15:43.840 is just a $10 word for your brain just making 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:47.539 shit up without you realizing it. Yeah. Because 00:15:47.539 --> 00:15:50.029 our brains... they pretty much hate incomplete 00:15:50.029 --> 00:15:52.149 pictures. So when there's missing information, 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:55.070 it'll just plug something in there that seems 00:15:55.070 --> 00:15:58.450 plausible so that the memory feels whole. Like 00:15:58.450 --> 00:16:01.210 for example, Febreze. Febreze is only spelled 00:16:01.210 --> 00:16:04.570 with one E and that looks weird. So our brain 00:16:04.570 --> 00:16:07.250 goes, nah, that can't be right. So it'll basically 00:16:07.250 --> 00:16:09.450 just like auto -correct it to Febreze with two 00:16:09.450 --> 00:16:12.409 E's because that makes more sense to us. And 00:16:12.409 --> 00:16:14.509 from then on, you'll... quote -unquote remember 00:16:14.509 --> 00:16:17.330 seeing the wrong spelling, even though it was 00:16:17.330 --> 00:16:19.710 never spelled that way to begin with. Does that 00:16:19.710 --> 00:16:21.070 make sense? I hate that. Does that make sense, 00:16:21.169 --> 00:16:23.850 though? Because you just keep describing things 00:16:23.850 --> 00:16:26.830 that are actively happening to me in my brain 00:16:26.830 --> 00:16:32.509 right now. How the fuck do you spell breeze with 00:16:32.509 --> 00:16:37.950 one E? I don't know. It's B -R -E -Z -E. Are 00:16:37.950 --> 00:16:39.230 you looking up to spelling it for breeze right 00:16:39.230 --> 00:16:44.090 now? No, no. Say that again. B -R -E -Z -E. So 00:16:44.090 --> 00:16:47.450 that's two E's. Yeah, but it's E -E that people 00:16:47.450 --> 00:16:50.889 think it's spelled. B -R -E -E -Z -E. Okay, okay. 00:16:51.470 --> 00:16:54.190 Wrong E that you're thinking of. So then three 00:16:54.190 --> 00:16:57.730 E's. Two E's in the middle where you would expect 00:16:57.730 --> 00:17:03.399 two E's to be. How's that? Right, okay. Another 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.539 reason that people might be misremembering things 00:17:05.539 --> 00:17:08.059 could be the misinformation effect. This is what 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:10.440 happens when your brain updates a memory with 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.279 some wrong information after the original event. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.359 Like, for example, let's say you and a buddy 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.240 went to a show and you swore that the band closed 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.079 with like a specific song. But later your buddy 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:25.880 says, oh yeah, that show was fun. They ended 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.880 with... This other song. Now, if you keep hearing 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.220 their version of events enough times, your brain 00:17:31.220 --> 00:17:33.980 will start to rewrite your memory. And now you 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:37.119 will remember seeing them play that other closing 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:39.440 song that your friend said they played, even 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.059 though that never really happened. Right. It's 00:17:42.059 --> 00:17:43.799 the same way that, like, rumors spread. And the 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.119 more it's repeated, the more it feels like it's 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.680 true. Yeah, like the game of telephone, too, 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.319 even a little bit. Yeah. Or like how, for some 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:52.900 reason, we all just knew that Marilyn Manson 00:17:52.900 --> 00:17:55.460 got his bottom two ribs removed to suck his own 00:17:55.460 --> 00:17:58.319 dick. I don't know where that came from or how 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.299 I think that's falling more into rumor territory. 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.019 And we just kept propagating the rumor. But as 00:18:03.019 --> 00:18:05.420 I'm saying, it's, it's the same way. Like we 00:18:05.420 --> 00:18:07.359 repeat enough times. It just, people just assumed 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:12.319 it was true. Yeah. Okay. Um, even asking questions 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.640 in a certain way can change how you remember 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:17.670 certain things. Like if I asked you, do you remember 00:18:17.670 --> 00:18:20.609 this black hat instead of did you see a black 00:18:20.609 --> 00:18:23.549 hat, your brain will be more likely to falsely 00:18:23.549 --> 00:18:25.930 recall seeing the black hat even if there was 00:18:25.930 --> 00:18:30.930 no black hat. Right. Yeah, because you're suggesting 00:18:30.930 --> 00:18:33.410 it. The power of suggestion can be very strong. 00:18:33.609 --> 00:18:37.990 Also, our brains, they just love patterns. We 00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:41.509 have a mental template for how things are supposed 00:18:41.509 --> 00:18:44.809 to be and look, and when details are fuzzy, our 00:18:44.809 --> 00:18:48.539 brain just defaults. to that template like with 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:51.599 uh like with curious george he's a monkey right 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.039 yep okay i hope so all right so you're following 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.599 uh monkeys have tails so even though we have 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.579 never seen a tail on curious george our brain 00:19:00.579 --> 00:19:03.160 just fills it in automatically holy shit he doesn't 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.460 have a tail what the fuck is happening right 00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:11.599 now am i am i having a stroke maybe i don't know 00:19:13.809 --> 00:19:15.910 What kind of dickhead makes a monkey without 00:19:15.910 --> 00:19:19.950 a tail? Oh, man, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to 00:19:19.950 --> 00:19:22.730 fucking blow your mind right now. You fucking 00:19:22.730 --> 00:19:26.230 blew my mind. But it's the same thing with names. 00:19:26.289 --> 00:19:28.670 Like Berenstain matches common endings to names 00:19:28.670 --> 00:19:31.549 like Goldstein. So Berenstain doesn't fit that 00:19:31.549 --> 00:19:34.369 template we have, and our brain fixes it for 00:19:34.369 --> 00:19:38.650 us. Yeah, well, it's also weird. It is weird. 00:19:39.250 --> 00:19:43.579 It's not a common name. The Bearstain Bears? 00:19:43.819 --> 00:19:48.359 I mean, come on. Yeah. It's still preposterous 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.700 and I still... It's Berenstain. It always will 00:19:50.700 --> 00:19:53.680 be. I'm not saying it the other way. That's dumb. 00:19:53.980 --> 00:19:55.619 And then there's just straight up conflation. 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.240 Your brain taking two or more memories and smashing 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:03.920 them together into one. That's all that is. But 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:05.640 this is all just woke liberal science if you 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:12.289 ask me, Sarge. I did... I did my own research. 00:20:12.529 --> 00:20:15.349 I was hoping you would do that. Here are some 00:20:15.349 --> 00:20:17.390 theories that I think can explain what's really 00:20:17.390 --> 00:20:21.450 going on here. One, we slipped into a parallel 00:20:21.450 --> 00:20:23.890 universe. This is like the big theory surrounding 00:20:23.890 --> 00:20:26.369 the Mandela effect. And it's really the only 00:20:26.369 --> 00:20:29.069 plausible explanation if you ask me. You see, 00:20:29.170 --> 00:20:32.190 in our original reality, Mandela died in prison, 00:20:32.650 --> 00:20:36.349 Sinbad made a genie movie, and Berenstain was 00:20:36.349 --> 00:20:38.930 spelled how it should be. But some unknown... 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.660 event caused a split or a possible merge in timelines 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:45.319 and now a portion of the world's population retains 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:49.200 memories or absorbed from those different timelines 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.259 and the evidence for this it's pretty sound sarge 00:20:53.259 --> 00:20:56.079 sound as fuck if you ask me it's the people's 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.420 memories sarge that's the proof okay okay yeah 00:21:00.420 --> 00:21:03.059 because our memories are infallible Yeah. Which 00:21:03.059 --> 00:21:05.819 is why I always know where my keys are. Always. 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:08.099 Yeah. As we just learned, our memories are perfect. 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:10.519 And this theory is perfect because technically 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:17.259 you can't disprove it. Right. So it's kind of 00:21:17.259 --> 00:21:19.660 the perfect theory. I actually, so I do have 00:21:19.660 --> 00:21:22.400 something to add here. The minute you, I realized 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.400 we were talking about the Mandela effect. I, 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:29.740 I love YouTube, but I don't like normal YouTube. 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.099 I like fucking weird YouTube, like Sovereign 00:21:33.099 --> 00:21:36.680 Citizens. I love watching these idiots get owned 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:38.720 when the police finally just arrest them and 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:42.880 bust out their window. It's fun. I don't like 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:44.579 it when police are violent to most people, but 00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:47.619 when someone is so confidently wrong, it is like 00:21:47.619 --> 00:21:51.460 a nice byproduct. So there's a guy from Canada 00:21:51.460 --> 00:21:56.640 named Mark Parhar. What was it? Mark Parhar? 00:21:56.900 --> 00:22:00.690 Parhar? P -A -R -H -A -R. Love it. awful day 00:22:00.690 --> 00:22:03.589 oh mac m -a -k is his first name that's even 00:22:03.589 --> 00:22:05.329 worse it doesn't matter he's dead anyway yeah 00:22:05.329 --> 00:22:10.390 so um what happened is mac aside from being a 00:22:10.390 --> 00:22:14.390 moron in a number of different ways yeah uh he 00:22:14.390 --> 00:22:17.289 was on this show debating i think it was flat 00:22:17.289 --> 00:22:22.029 earth okay because i mean you can't be a sovereign 00:22:22.029 --> 00:22:24.789 citizen and not be full -on stupid well yeah 00:22:24.789 --> 00:22:27.829 i mean the two kind of go hand in hand And so 00:22:27.829 --> 00:22:30.650 he was making an argument, and this is when I 00:22:30.650 --> 00:22:32.250 learned this theory that you're talking about. 00:22:32.289 --> 00:22:38.589 He was making an argument that they were changing 00:22:38.589 --> 00:22:43.390 the letters in our books so that words that we 00:22:43.390 --> 00:22:46.089 thought were spelled one way were spelled another 00:22:46.089 --> 00:22:47.890 way. Sarge, you might be getting ahead of yourself. 00:22:48.509 --> 00:22:50.930 All right, I'm going to stop talking then. But 00:22:50.930 --> 00:22:54.880 look up Mac Parhar. And all of the stupid things 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.960 he did because his final act of stupidity. Did 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:02.440 he go out Bill Cooper style? No, he he he's not 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:05.680 bright enough for that kind of an exit. What 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.920 he actually did was he refused to accept that 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.099 COVID was real. Yeah. And therefore took zero 00:23:12.099 --> 00:23:15.400 precautions and then died of COVID. Well, yeah, 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:18.480 that's again, sovereign citizen flat earth. Obviously, 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.880 you got hit the trifecta with COVID denial. He 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:24.819 did us all a favor. Yeah, it all tracks. Some 00:23:24.819 --> 00:23:29.900 problems solve themselves. Yeah. Another theory 00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:32.920 that is also 100 % plausible is that when the 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.579 Large Hadron Collider at CERN went online in 00:23:35.579 --> 00:23:38.460 2008 and just started smashing particles together 00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:41.180 at near light speed, it just sort of straight 00:23:41.180 --> 00:23:45.559 up broke reality. I'm mildly open to this theory, 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:48.640 actually. Some think that by ramming atoms together 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.920 at breakneck speeds, CERN accidentally ripped 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:54.779 a hole in space -time or merged timelines or 00:23:54.779 --> 00:23:57.400 reset the universe itself. This theory is kind 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:59.859 of all over the place. And that maybe the Mandela 00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:02.460 effect is just a side effect of one or more of 00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:04.400 those things happening. Again, there's no evidence 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.400 for this. And the energy levels at the LHC are 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:10.299 nowhere near what would be required to, quote 00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:13.599 -unquote, destabilize reality. That's what they 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:15.420 want you to think. Exactly. I was just about 00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:21.619 to say that. Great minds think alike. Other theories 00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:23.619 that people love to connect to the Mandela effect 00:24:23.619 --> 00:24:26.440 is that we're living in a simulation and that 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:28.480 some of these glitches we're experiencing is 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.440 just like quality of life patches or like bugs 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:33.759 in the code. Some even take this further and 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:35.559 suggest that whoever's running the simulation 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:38.279 is just fucking with us, like subtly changing 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.759 small details to see how we react to them. Well, 00:24:41.859 --> 00:24:44.240 if I could speak on the behalf of humanity, can 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.759 we remove the MAGA update? Because it really 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:49.289 hasn't helped anyone. Well, maybe we don't know 00:24:49.289 --> 00:24:53.309 what's coming. Maybe the next expansion pack 00:24:53.309 --> 00:24:56.930 is going to be fucking bonkers. You just haven't 00:24:56.930 --> 00:25:02.089 got it. You know, it's like a GTA 5, GTA 6. It's 00:25:02.089 --> 00:25:05.109 going to take a few years before when it comes. 00:25:05.930 --> 00:25:08.710 Better be ready, baby. I also want to know what 00:25:08.710 --> 00:25:11.089 update led to mullets coming back because I would 00:25:11.089 --> 00:25:13.769 like for those to go away as well. People haven't 00:25:13.769 --> 00:25:16.250 followed them. They're the worst. It's fine. 00:25:18.089 --> 00:25:20.049 Then you have what is probably the most paranoid 00:25:20.049 --> 00:25:22.890 theory of them all, and that is that the Mandela 00:25:22.890 --> 00:25:25.009 effect isn't just faulty memories or parallel 00:25:25.009 --> 00:25:27.869 worlds or time travelers fucking with us, which 00:25:27.869 --> 00:25:30.470 is another theory that we didn't get into. No, 00:25:30.470 --> 00:25:32.670 Sarge. What's really happening here is that the 00:25:32.670 --> 00:25:35.390 world's most powerful entities, like the government, 00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:39.049 corporations, shadowy elites, are rewriting little 00:25:39.049 --> 00:25:41.490 details of history and pop culture to mess with 00:25:41.490 --> 00:25:43.930 our perception of reality. And for what reason? 00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:47.480 If they make you question something as simple 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:50.599 as a logo or a line from a movie, how much easier 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:52.660 would it be to manipulate your beliefs about 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:55.880 bigger things? Now, in conspiracy forums, this 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.079 is known as gaslighting at scale. This is a conspiracy 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:01.279 that starts at the top and goes all the way to 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.160 the bottom, with some people accusing Reddit 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:06.700 mods of being agents or bots that are working 00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:09.019 to shut down any discussion on the matter and 00:26:09.019 --> 00:26:12.200 discredit the believers. One viral post said, 00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:15.799 quote, 90 % of the main Mandela effect sub is 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.539 AI or government employees trying to cover up 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:23.680 the truth, end quote. Amazing. Amazing. Of course 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.059 it is. Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be? Yeah, 00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:28.000 obviously. And you're crazy for not thinking 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:29.839 that. That's what I'm saying. Now, again, of 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:32.220 course, there's no evidence for any of that. 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:35.799 Plus, the logistics of secretly altering every 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:39.460 copy of every book, movie, ad, or logo worldwide 00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:44.150 is a wild concept. To say the least. I feel like 00:26:44.150 --> 00:26:47.549 it's harder than most people would think. I feel 00:26:47.549 --> 00:26:49.049 like people don't realize that conspiracies on 00:26:49.049 --> 00:26:51.609 a mass scale just don't work. I feel like the 00:26:51.609 --> 00:26:53.990 people who believe this have never led a large 00:26:53.990 --> 00:26:56.569 group of people before. I guess. I don't know. 00:26:56.769 --> 00:26:59.789 Because you would know immediately how impossible 00:26:59.789 --> 00:27:04.170 it is for every single person in that group to 00:27:04.170 --> 00:27:07.430 maintain the same message. Yeah. Or keep the 00:27:07.430 --> 00:27:10.109 secret. You know what I mean? It's impossible. 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.619 I feel like a conspiracy of more than like four 00:27:12.619 --> 00:27:15.039 people, even then you're pushing it. One of those 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:16.640 people is going to say something to someone. 00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:21.519 There was a university in England. I know it's 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:23.220 one of like the really big prestigious ones. 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:24.619 I just can't remember the name of it, but they 00:27:24.619 --> 00:27:29.019 actually have a mathematical equation that talks 00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:32.599 about or that disproves conspiracy simply by 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:38.809 dividing the time. Yeah. I'm sorry. determining 00:27:38.809 --> 00:27:40.769 the time that it would take for a conspiracy 00:27:40.769 --> 00:27:44.470 to get out to the general public and it's divided 00:27:44.470 --> 00:27:48.150 by the amount of people in that organization 00:27:48.150 --> 00:27:51.809 so for instance i think with the moon landing 00:27:51.809 --> 00:27:55.349 it basically would have taken like six months 00:27:55.349 --> 00:27:59.130 for that to get out because there's so many people 00:27:59.130 --> 00:28:02.210 involved like yeah it's fucking stupid but yeah 00:28:02.210 --> 00:28:05.759 but in reality the mandala effect it's literally 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.799 just that our memories are garbage and not as 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:10.960 reliable as we think they are. False, false memories 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.799 are a very well documented and well studied phenomenon. 00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:17.240 And when you scale them up across billions of 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:19.380 people who grew up with the same like pop culture 00:28:19.380 --> 00:28:22.079 and shit, you get the Mandela effect. It's not 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.039 like reality shifting. It's just now that we 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:26.380 have the internet, more people could talk about 00:28:26.380 --> 00:28:29.650 how they forgot something. Yeah. Yeah. And the 00:28:29.650 --> 00:28:31.569 name itself pretty much shows how this works. 00:28:31.650 --> 00:28:33.450 Like I said, Fiona Broome, the woman who coined 00:28:33.450 --> 00:28:35.910 the phrase, she remembers every detail of Mandela 00:28:35.910 --> 00:28:40.150 dying, the news coverage, the speeches, the crowds, 00:28:40.269 --> 00:28:42.609 and so did dozens of others. But there's a perfectly 00:28:42.609 --> 00:28:46.039 mundane explanation for her memories. In 1977, 00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.640 South African activist Steve Biko actually did 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.279 die in police custody, and it was a massive international 00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.960 news event. Add Mandela's real -life health scare 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:58.799 that he had in 1988, and then later the funerals 00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:01.160 of other prominent South African leaders, and 00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:02.920 it's pretty much just the perfect recipe for 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.539 a Mandela effect situation. It makes total sense. 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:08.460 Yeah, no one's jumping timelines. They were just 00:29:08.460 --> 00:29:11.240 blending overlapping real events into one very 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.220 powerful false memory. It's source confusion 00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.640 and confabulation working in sync, if that makes 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:21.160 sense. So the Mandela effect is real. It's just 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:22.640 in our heads. It's not a glitch in the matrix. 00:29:22.779 --> 00:29:25.259 It's just a glitch in our garbage brains. But 00:29:25.259 --> 00:29:27.259 what makes it feel like it's something bigger 00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:29.759 is because it's not just you that misremembered 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:32.319 some fucking shoe logo. It's that millions of 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.660 other people did too, which makes it feel like 00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:36.519 it's evidence of something bigger when really 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:39.990 it isn't. There you have it, Sarge. That's an 00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:41.349 episode on the Mandela Effect. I don't really 00:29:41.349 --> 00:29:43.049 know what the point of this was, but it was fun. 00:29:43.210 --> 00:29:44.769 I had a good time with it. It was fun to talk 00:29:44.769 --> 00:29:48.230 about. Yeah. I mean, I feel like sometimes we 00:29:48.230 --> 00:29:54.049 don't have to solve a thing or get to the bottom 00:29:54.049 --> 00:29:56.750 of it. I think, frankly, the Mandela Effect, 00:29:56.970 --> 00:30:00.029 it fascinates me because, I mean, we just saw 00:30:00.029 --> 00:30:03.349 in this episode, there's still shit that's happening 00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:07.670 to me. I could have been, if you, I would have 00:30:07.670 --> 00:30:10.529 bet every dime I had that Curious George had 00:30:10.529 --> 00:30:12.490 a fucking tail. Yeah, right, that one got me. 00:30:13.150 --> 00:30:16.609 That blew my mind. Like, the Fruit of the Loom 00:30:16.609 --> 00:30:19.450 logo, too. I could have sworn it was a cornucopia. 00:30:19.829 --> 00:30:24.589 I also believed that Sinbad did Shazam until, 00:30:24.690 --> 00:30:26.490 of course, the Mandela effect became popular. 00:30:27.490 --> 00:30:29.309 Berenstain Bears was another one that got me. 00:30:29.349 --> 00:30:32.839 I never thought Nelson Mandela died, so. Um, 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:35.079 but maybe I was a little young for that. I mean, 00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:37.599 I, I was just a little boy in the eighties, so 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:40.180 I wouldn't have known anything about that anyway. 00:30:40.859 --> 00:30:45.680 Um, but it's interesting to know about and kind 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:50.339 of, because when I, so let me explain when I 00:30:50.339 --> 00:30:52.920 was in, um, when I was in the military, I was 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:55.880 in the military police and I got, uh, some training 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.599 on like police work and stuff like that. And 00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:00.180 one of the things that kind of beat into your 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:03.339 head is that memory is very faulty. and so you 00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:06.220 can't really completely rely on eyewitness statements 00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:08.980 which is why you know every time there's an active 00:31:08.980 --> 00:31:11.400 shooter situation you're going to get people 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.660 who say oh there were two shooters yeah and almost 00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:18.460 every time there's not two and it's just because 00:31:18.460 --> 00:31:22.059 people's brains work crazy especially in a traumatic 00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:24.119 situation and so you misremember things all the 00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:28.400 time yeah So you can't rely on eyewitness testimony 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.339 alone in most cases because it's nearly impossible 00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:35.980 for you to accurately remember enough to go beyond 00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:38.359 a shadow of a doubt in a criminal case. Yeah. 00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:41.559 Or, you know, remembering the name of a couple 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:47.960 bears. You know? I don't even remember people's 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:51.779 faces. Like when I see mug shots and they're 00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:54.440 like, keep an eye out for this guy. Good luck. 00:31:54.890 --> 00:31:56.990 I'm probably not going to remember. I could talk 00:31:56.990 --> 00:31:59.390 to that guy right after looking at the mugshot, 00:31:59.450 --> 00:32:02.029 and I probably wouldn't put it together. Yeah, 00:32:02.089 --> 00:32:06.170 but it was fun. I feel like... I don't know. 00:32:06.269 --> 00:32:09.049 Mandela Effect is funny, but it's so fucking 00:32:09.049 --> 00:32:13.750 stupid. The fact that people believe... So this 00:32:13.750 --> 00:32:17.509 guy, Mac, he honestly believed and said this 00:32:17.509 --> 00:32:21.950 multiple times that he believed that they were 00:32:21.950 --> 00:32:26.710 changing... The books in his house somehow. Just 00:32:26.710 --> 00:32:30.269 specifically the ones in his house? Well, like 00:32:30.269 --> 00:32:35.390 everybody's. Okay. And I'm like, bro, we can't 00:32:35.390 --> 00:32:37.670 even fix potholes. Why do you think that they 00:32:37.670 --> 00:32:41.529 would put all of this effort into doing this 00:32:41.529 --> 00:32:44.329 to you? Control, we went over this. It's basically 00:32:44.329 --> 00:32:49.130 gang stalking, but on a massive scale. How? How 00:32:49.130 --> 00:32:52.329 and why? Because control is not enough for me. 00:32:58.690 --> 00:33:02.369 Georgia Guidestones. Yeah. You know what? You're 00:33:02.369 --> 00:33:06.210 right. That's just what it is. We wrapped it 00:33:06.210 --> 00:33:09.269 up. You said we didn't have to solve it. I think 00:33:09.269 --> 00:33:11.549 we just did. I think we did. Georgia Guidestones. 00:33:11.829 --> 00:33:13.750 Georgia Guidestones. All right. Well, we'll never 00:33:13.750 --> 00:33:15.390 have to deal with Mandela Effect again because 00:33:15.390 --> 00:33:18.710 they got blowed up. Is that the end? Is that 00:33:18.710 --> 00:33:25.339 the end? The end. Love it. All right. Yeah, thank 00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:27.359 you so much for listening, everyone. And if there's 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.519 any Mandela effects that I missed or if there's 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.180 some fucking crazy one that you think we should 00:33:32.180 --> 00:33:35.859 know about, hit us up. Maybe we'll do an update 00:33:35.859 --> 00:33:38.160 on some of the crazier ones or even the crazier 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.700 theories. If there's more theories out there, 00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:42.660 let me know. We didn't even touch on all of them. 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:46.259 I just chose my favorite ones. Oh, yeah. 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