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Alright! Woo! Welcome to Cryptid Cocktail Party.
This is a show where we have a few drinks, share
a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm
not Dave. You could probably tell that because
he did mention he was in Japan and our voices
are very different. But that's okay. That's okay.
I got Cam. What's up? What's going on, Cam? And
I got Maynard. Hey! We needed two people to replace
Dave. That's the outsized role he plays on this
show. That's accurate. All right, I'll be the
left side. What's going on, gentlemen? Not much,
buddy. Just having a few drinks and ready to
share a few laughs. Clearly, you recognize the
intro. Maynard, how's it going? Long weekend,
man. Long weekend. Yeah. For you, I still have
to work tomorrow. And I put some beer in the
freezer to cool it off, and it is now slushy.
It sounds like you can hear the ice and slush
in that can. Yeah, I didn't want people to think
I was doing plops in my chair. All right. Well,
we'll see how that turns out later. Okay. So
I am very excited about this episode. For those
of you who have listened to the show, you know
that I love conspiracy theories. And I have a
conspiracy theory that is just so dumb that only
morons believe it. No, I'm not talking about
QAnon, though there is some adjacency. We're
going to talk about fucking Flat Earth. All right.
bold choice yeah yeah we're gonna debunk some
stuff um and i'm i'm not a bright guy but i'm
bright enough to know that the planet that i
live on is round uh because of the some of the
proofs that are in here but also just you know
observation of being a human being on this planet
and knowing that seasons can't happen if it's
not round but we're gonna get into a whole bunch
of stuff but but first i'm gonna take you all
the way back to the year of 1830. I tried to
find a sound effect for that. No sound machine.
No time machine sound effect. So just make one
up in your head, and that's the correct one.
All right. So here we go. The year is 1830. The
first public college is chartered in Alabama.
And from then on, Alabama is famous for being
a bastion of education. Joseph Smith. establishes
the Church of Latter -day Saints, officially
beginning the era of weird underwear and pale
virgins and short -sleeved white button -downs,
trying to convince perfectly normal people that
Joseph Smith wasn't a con man and renowned sex
pest. And funny commercials in the 80s. Oh, very
funny commercials in the 80s. Hooray for soaking.
Edward Beard Budding of England invented the
lawnmower and it's immediately classified. as
a weapon of grass destruction. You're welcome
for that dad joke. And finally, British writer
and absolute fucking donkey, Samuel Burley Robotham,
finds a commune consisting of science -illiterate
morons who believe the Earth is flat, despite
centuries worth of research to the contrary.
I didn't know that the modern flat Earth went
back that far. Yeah, yeah. In fact, a lot of
the things that Robotham talks about are parroted
by some of the morons who are currently influencing
in this space. It's sad. It's really sad. So
I'm going to get into a little bit of Flat Earth.
So you can't really talk about it without kind
of defining it a little bit. It's not just that
the Earth is flat. So let me get into some of
the things that they believe. Proponents of Flat
Earth believe the planet we live on is a flat
plane. They believe that what we know as Antarctica
is not a continent, but actually an ice wall
which contains the world's oceans. There is a
sweeping government conspiracy spanning most,
if not all, of the world, but definitely the
56 signers of the Antarctic Treaty, to keep the
true shape of the Earth a secret. For reasons
no one... has ever crossed Antarctica, so that's
right out. And no one aside from the military
is allowed to go to Antarctica. Or, conversely,
some believe you can go to Antarctica if you
get permission, but they won't let you go too
far. That's like anal. It just depends on how
much Sambuca you have. So there's a bunch of
other beliefs and subcategories, and some of
the things I said on here kind of contradict
each other. Some flat earthers assume we live
on like a pizza kind of thing, like a flat plate
almost. Others aren't sure. They think there
might be an ice wall that contains the earth,
and then outside the ice wall there's just more
land and more people. It just keeps going? Yeah,
yeah. I even heard one flat earther say he's
not even sure. That the flat disc that we're
on is round. It might be square. You know, there's
so many squares in nature. So that adds up. Are
there more like Chick -fil -A's and McDonald's
on the other side? I mean, what if there was
better than Chick -fil -A and McDonald's? Right.
What if there's a Chick -fil -A that doesn't
hate gay people? Right. I mean, that's a Chick
-fil -A we can all get behind. And you might
have just pushed me into the flat earth. all
right for a better tomorrow so uh one thing i
want to get clear right off the bat the flat
earth society is a joke those aren't they they're
not actually flat earthers they're mocking flat
earthers that's why they're uh they have that
little slogan you know millions of flat earthers
all around the globe um it is a joke um And they
get very mad when you lump them in with those
people. So please continue to do that because
it's hilarious when they get angry. Let's see.
Okay, so we're just going to talk about a few
of the things that they believe because it will
be a multi -episode thing. And it's actually
really maddening because it's like talking to
a toddler who's insisting that there's a monster
under their bed. You just can't convince them
otherwise. So I, in preparation for this, have
watched a lot of Flat Earth videos. Specifically,
Nathan Thompson, who's a moron. Nathan Oakley,
also a moron. Eric Dubé, probably a moron. CC
Chris from Westchester County, his wife actually
called him a moron on his own video. And instead
of cutting that part out, he left it in there.
He was in his kitchen, like, starting to ramble
on about the flat earth, and his wife was, like,
really hungry and wanted to go to dinner. Oh,
I saw that! She's like, are you still doing this
shit? And then she called him, actually, no,
I'm sorry, she called him an idiot. If you can
see videos of CC Chris from Westchester County,
holy shit. I have never heard a more stupid person
be so confidently wrong in all of my life. Is
he stupid or is his wife just a deep state plant?
Dude, he says stuff that like you already know
isn't true. And so when you hear him talk, you're
like, you have to know that that's not right.
Like he says nonsense. Um, and then there's a
couple other jackasses like level earth observer,
some dipshit named Dave Weiss, who definitely
doesn't believe in the flat earth, but he's definitely
like, uh, scamming them. He's like a huge grifter.
Santo Spallacci. He is the angriest elf I've
ever seen. He's like two feet tall and he swears
constantly. Really doesn't like the gaze. Anyway,
so these are just some of the luminaries that
believe in this crazy theory. I will warn you,
the Nathans, Nathan Thompson and Nathan Oakley,
are kind of like... the worst their countries
have to offer. I think Nathan Thompson is from
England or Nathan Oakley is from the United States.
And they are exactly the worst kind of person
you would expect from those countries. Just in
general. So, while they all have different styles,
they're equally scientifically illiterate, incapable
of understanding Occam's razor, and terminally
afflicted with what is commonly referred to as
the Dunning -Kruger effect, which in and of itself
is a widely misunderstood theory that I'm going
to quickly explain, because a lot of people say
Dunning -Kruger, and it actually means something
slightly different from what we think it means.
So... Not to bore you too much, but it's commonly
believed that incompetent individuals overestimate
their abilities due to a lack of self -awareness.
And while that is kind of true, it's not entirely
true. And I believed this for a long time, so
I'm not attacking anyone who didn't fully understand
this study. However, the original research is
actually a little bit more nuanced. Recent study
revisiting Dunning -Kruger found that those with
low ability actually underestimate their own
abilities, while those with high ability... tend
to slightly overestimate themselves. But overall,
the most consistent finding between both the
original study and the most recent testing of
it found that most people think they're better
than average regardless of their skill set. The
takeaway here is stay humble. And now let's all
point and laugh at these flat Earth morons. So,
to help us understand why this notion of flat
Earth is dumb, let's start with fundamental principles
of astronomy. The lunar eclipse. Everybody knows
what a lunar eclipse is, right? It's when you
throw a frisbee up in the sky and it blocks the
moon for like a second. Very close, but incorrect.
It is also not when you pull your pants up after
mooning someone. So a lunar eclipse is when the
moon goes behind the earth. And so you, uh, don't
see the, uh, the, the earth shadow covers the
moon. You're blocking the sun's path to the moon.
Actually, no, that's incorrect. That is a new
moon. Excuse me. Let me get back to my information
because I'm being dumb. Isn't it when the moon
blocks out the sun? That's a solar eclipse, but
hold on a second. So one of the key pieces of
evidence for a spherical Earth is a phenomenon
of lunar eclipses. During a lunar eclipse, the
Earth casts a round shadow on the moon. This
shadow is consistently curved, proving that the
Earth is indeed a sphere. So many people smarter
than us are listening to this right now, just
pissed off. Super mad and I apologize. But honestly,
a new moon is also evidence of a round earth
because it wouldn't happen if the moon wasn't
going around us. It's also not a great book by
Stephanie Myers. All right, so before the flat
earth clowns start mumbling, but disks are round
too. That's true, disks are round, but if we're
standing on the broad face of that disk, like
the disk is horizontal and we're standing on
it, then the sun and the moon are above us. There's
no way our disk would cast a round shadow on
the thing above us because we would need a light
source of some kind. What's coming from underneath
us to block out the light. You know what I mean?
It sounds like you're thinking about it. Yeah.
Don't think about it. Probably shouldn't be thinking
about it. So like the moon, everybody knows the
moon is just reflecting the light of the sun,
right? Yes. The flat earth belief is that the
moon and the sun are both generating light. And
some of the flat earthers actually believe that
the moon is generating cold light. Oh. Oh, man.
Yeah, it's real dumb. Because what they do is
they take like a thing that measures the air
temperature and they... they measure the moonlight
temperature, but then they measure the temperature
underneath an umbrella. Like, you know, patio
umbrella. What they're failing to realize is
that the patio umbrella is somewhat trapping
some of the daytime heat, but they think that
the light from, they really do believe this,
that the light from the moon is actually cold.
Is this just any old patio umbrella? Yeah, any
old patio umbrella. Right. So, Man, guys, I first
learned about this, and I was just blown away.
I am an idiot, as you can tell from me not knowing
how to describe a lunar eclipse. But holy shit.
Like, do like three seconds of research. It's
tough when it's so stupid that you feel stupid
because you're trying to understand how somebody
could believe it. Like, my brain is hurting right
now, and I'm like, I'm not... I agree. I'm also
not the smartest person in the world, but how
can somebody this fucking dumb? Yeah. So now
let's talk about constellations. We don't all
know what constellations are, right? They're
shapes that ancestors believed the stars were
making. Yeah. Okay. They're nothing different
than that, right? Like O 'Brien with his big
swinging dick? What? Oh, that's Orion. O 'Brien's
a guy I knew in college. I don't know. O 'Brien
also apparently had a big dick. So congratulations
on your dick, O 'Brien. Unusual for an Irish
guy. Yeah, that's true. They don't call it the
curse for nothing. So the reason I'm bringing
this up is we're residents of the Northern Hemisphere.
We live in Northern United States on the Northeast.
So we're lucky enough to have a year -round visibility
of Polaris. You guys know Polaris North Star,
right? Yep. Okay. So commonly referred to. As
the North Star, Polaris is kind of our guide
to not necessarily true North, but North. And
if you are too in the Northern Hemisphere, but
have never seen the North Star, I can help you
out on a clear night. Go outside, find Ursa Major,
or as most commonly known, the Big Dipper. Ursa
Major looks a little like a rectangle, rectangular
like ladle. It's a little wider on one side than
the other, and then a long curved tail. And if
you look at the end of the rectangle, opposite
the side with the tail, starting at the narrower
corner and move to the wider corner and then
draw a straight line, that's the North Star.
So if you're, there's the corner, there's a corner,
and then the handle kind of goes down, you want
to look that way and you will see it. And for
those of you who are not watching this on video,
You know, Google it. So anyway... The video,
it did look like you were a 58 -year -old man
trying to dab. Yeah. For those of you who are
missing it, I do look like an elderly man dabbing.
But anyway, the bottom line is, Polaris is the
North Star. Interesting and fun fact about the
North Star, it is not visible in the Southern
Hemisphere. So like if you were to turn around
and see the Southern Cross, you were not looking
at the North Star. You were looking at something
else. So if you can't see it, that's because
there's a whole ass fucking planet in the way.
The Southern Cross is only visible year -round
from below the equator. There are times you can
see the Southern Cross from southern Florida,
but never year -round. You can only see it in
like May. So ask yourself this question. If the
Earth were flat, Why couldn't you see both the
North Star and the Southern Cross at the same
time? It's true. Because it's impossible, that's
why. Oh, I thought we were trying to come up
with the Flat Earth. There's no way to describe
it. And Flat Earthers just dance around this
all the time. So the Southern Cross is kind of
how mariners south of the equator would... guide
when they couldn't see the North Star. That's
kind of the idea. So it's not just the Southern
Cross that's obscured in the Northern Hemisphere.
You also can't see Phoenix, Groose, Takana, Eridanus,
Hydrus, Lupus, Cruz, Centaurus, and Carina, among
others. Now, I might have mispronounced all those,
but that's okay, because I am stupid. And that's
okay, too. But below the equator, you can't see
Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Perseus, Lynx, Draco,
Cepheus. Cassiopeia. Oh, God. Why did I put this
in there and not look it up? Camelopardalis.
And something that looks like arugula, but it's
not arugula. There's a lot of constellations
that you can't see below the equator. Camelopardalis
is what RFK has. Yes. Yes. It is a fancy word
for brain worms. You can observe this year -round,
too, as long as you have a mostly clear sky.
You can be reassured that if you can't see certain
constellations, it's because the Earth is still
round. So good news there. Now, let's talk a
little bit about Antarctica. You know, that continent
that's very cold. For those of you who are very
unfamiliar, this is a cold place that has penguins,
not the cold place that has Santa and polar bears.
Unlike the North Pole, Antarctica is actually
a continent where the North Pole is just a huge
mass of floating ice. So stupid people who are
easily fooled also believe that Antarctica is
actually a wall of ice surrounding the flat earth
keeping the water in, as I previously mentioned.
These total and utter boobs also believe that
Antarctica has various militaries which have
come together to keep people out. Which is news
to all of the people who go there literally every
single year. Like you can get in a boat and just
go there. I like to play it there. Yes, yes,
Metallica played there. They're the only band
to play every continent. That's pretty impressive.
I'm glad Kiss didn't play there because I want
there to be one pristine spot on the globe. So
one such group of people went to a place called
Union Glacier, or as the British say, Glacier,
in 2024. To film the 24 hours of sun that Antarctica
experiences during its summer months. You guys
know about that, right? Well, that's why Kiss
couldn't go there. They like to rock and roll
all night and party every day. It's in their
contracts. You can't party every day if the day
is 24 hours long. That makes sense because Gene
Simmons, he needs his sleep. Yeah, you can't
rock and roll all night if there's no night.
Exactly. I agree. So 24 hours of sun. In Antarctica,
it's only possible on a globe. Because on the
flat Earth model, the sun spins around the disk
like a spirograph. It's just going all the way
around the outside. That's how they can account
for darkness on certain sides of the planet.
Yeah, and they also forgot about the top part
of the Earth. It also does that on the opposite
months. So for them, that's an easy one. Oh.
Because in their mind, the North Pole is in the
center in their map. And so it's easy for that
to have 24 -hour sun. But if the ice wall, where
the sun is constantly zooming around like a spirograph,
has 24 hours of daylight, you would need multiple
suns for that. Which, sadly, unfortunately, is
also a flat -earth theory. God, I feel dumb trying
to explain this. I can see you struggling. It's
okay. It's so hard. We're going to get through
this together. So this group was unique also
because four Flat Earth influencers were in attendance.
There's Flat Earth influencers? Oh yeah, I mentioned
them. I mentioned a whole bunch of them. I'm
going to mention another one right now. I don't
think you said the word influencer, though. I
think that just really... I mean, ultimately,
that's what they... They're like YouTubers, but
they're influencers. They're trying to get you
to believe in this nonsense. They've got tactical
flashlight sponsorships. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah,
and they span the gamut of fucking stupid theories
as well. We're going to get into that in a segment
I have at the end of this that's going to be
a little bit of fun for all of us. Oh, boy. Yeah,
so... One of them is a guy named Jaron Campanella.
His YouTube channel was called Jaronism. And
Jaron was famous because in the first Flat Earth
documentary on YouTube, which was called... Was
it like Level With Me or something? I don't remember.
But it had a number of famous failures of Flat
Earth experiments. One of them... This guy named
Bob Nodal, who's recently passed. And Bob had
purchased an extremely expensive, I want to say
it was something like $20 ,000 laser gyroscope.
Now this gyroscope was so sensitive, it would
have picked up the Earth's rotation if the Earth
were to rotate. Because flat earthers believe
that the Earth is completely stationary and does
not rotate. So Bob turned on this laser gyroscope.
and picked up a 15 degree per hour drift, which
is exactly what you would expect if the Earth
were rotating. Now, flat earthers will say, oh,
the world rotates at 1 ,000 miles an hour, which
is bad because scientists will tell you that
they don't measure rotation in miles per hour.
That's silly. You would measure it in rotations
per a unit of measure. For instance, the Earth
rotates once a day. So that's 15 degrees per
hour in order to get a full 360 degree rotation.
Mind blown. So that's why the gyroscope was picking
up a 15 degree per hour drift. They fucking solved
that. Yeah, and he put it on Netflix. And they
were arguing, trying to figure out how it happened.
You didn't say it was on fucking Netflix. It
was on Netflix. I think it's called Level With
Me. I'm pretty sure that's the name of it. Oh
my god, it's still there? Yeah. So the reason
I'm bringing this up is that Jaron had the most
famous one because he did an experiment where
he had two boards with holes in them. Not glory
holes. That was my first thought too. He had
them spread out over a distance and his belief
was if he shined a light through one hole, you
should be able to see the light through the other
hole. Even though, you know, if the earth was
curved, you wouldn't be able to see it, but the
earth wasn't curved. You would be able to see
it. Now it's a little bit more complicated than
that. There's some more, uh, there's like a whole
debate about it, but ultimately what happened
is he looked through the hole and didn't see
the light. So then he told the guy all the way
down via radio, like raise the light higher.
And when you raise the light higher, to beat
the curve of the fucking earth he saw the light
his response to this was not oh man i was wrong
his response was interesting and it got clipped
in every like science youtuber that talks about
flat earth uses bob saying a 15 degree per hour
drift and jaron going interesting In fact, if
you go to Simon Dan's channel, who is a science
communicator on YouTube, he's very funny. He
sells a 15 degree per hour drift clock. You can
just hang it on your wall and it's just got 15s
all the way around it. It's great. I fucking
want one. Yeah, it's really funny. Okay, so anyway,
the whole reason I bring up Jaren is because
Jaren was given a free trip. down to Antarctica
because they wanted to prove to him that the
world was round. And to Jaron's credit, he has
since left the Flat Earth movement because he's
an honest person who is capable of learning new
information. Now, another Flat Earther named
Austin Witsit, he also went down to Antarctica,
witnessed the 24 -hour sun, and remains a moron.
Unfortunately. For the sunburn. I don't know
what happened to the other two. It's kind of
hard to get information. But the bottom line
is you can go to Antarctica and see that the
world is a globe. You can learn this by seeing
the 24 -hour sun. In the Southern Cross, you
can kill two fucking birds with one stone. Confidently
stupid, and you get somebody to pay for a vacation
for you? Well, I'm telling you, some of these
guys... There's this like big thing where people
are saying that they're grifters and that they're
trying to get money. And then the flat earthers
are like, no, I'm poor. I'm not trying to get
money. And it's like, well, no, you're just not
particularly clever. So these are the only people
you can fucking fool. If you were kind of smart,
you might be a MAGA influencer and make more
money. Fair point. You know? Okay. So anyway,
those are like my two main points. But now we
can talk about NASA and all the proof that they
have. all have accumulated since their existence.
But sadly, actually, we can't because nothing
NASA does can be trusted because Flat Earth has
claimed there's a vast conspiracy involving government
space agencies and scientists to hide the truth
about our planet's shape. And it all revolves
around NASA and the evil things that they're
doing. Now, you might be asking yourself, is
this plausible? No, no, fucking, of course not.
Of course it's not flawed. It's stupid. I mean,
NASA is filled with ex -Nazis, or at least it
was. Yeah. I mean, that part's true. But the
very fact that it was filled with ex -Nazis and
we know about it kind of tells you they can't
keep a secret. Fair. Alright, so, according to
Physics World, the notion of a global conspiracy
to hide the truth of the shape of the Earth is
simply not tenable. It would require the involvement
of thousands, if not millions, of people across
various disciplines. The logistics of such a
conspiracy would be impossible to maintain. Why
is it impossible, you might ask? Fucking math!
So, Oxford University... has a postdoctoral physicist
named Dr. David Grimes. He pretty conclusively
eliminated this possibility based on the number
of people who would have to be involved, the
age of the conspiracy, and the probability of
the conspiracy's failure. There's a lot more
to this, but if I were smart enough to understand
the paper he wrote, I probably would actually
be part of the conspiracy. What I can do is explain
the improbability of a flat earth based on five
categories. Complexity and coordination. Large
-scale conspiracy theories would require coordination
among multiple individuals or groups. The more
people involved, the harder it becomes to keep
the conspiracy under wraps. With so many moving
parts, there's a higher chance of a leak or mistakes
that could expose a conspiracy. And then there's
human nature. People involved in a conspiracy
are susceptible to human nature, including the
temptation to brag, seek recognition, or act
in their own self -interest. These factors...
increase the likelihood of someone involved in
the conspiracy eventually revealing the truth.
That kind of makes sense. Technological advances.
In today's digital age, it's increasingly difficult
to keep information hidden. Surveillance technology,
digital communication, and social media make
it easier for information to spread quickly and
for individuals to uncover and expose wrongdoing.
Historical precedents. The article mentions historical
examples where large -scale conspiracies were
eventually exposed, such as Watergate or the
Tuskegee syphilis study. These cases demonstrate
that even seemingly well -organized conspiracies
will eventually unravel over time due to investigative
journalism, whistleblowers, or other factors.
Like in the Tuskegee case, for instance, many
people dying of syphilis after going to get treated
for syphilis. And then finally, critical thinking
and skepticism. The study emphasizes the importance
of critical thinking and skepticism when evaluating
conspiracy theories. Encouraging individuals
to critically assess evidence and question the
validity of conspiracy claims can help prevent
the spread of false information. Unless you're
an idiot, which is why Flat Earth is so persistent.
So, now that we've disproven Flat Earth, just
kidding, if experiencing gravity watching the
sunrise and set... And countless photos, videos,
and live feeds from space can't convince them.
We have no chance. But hopefully, if you were
on the fence, this gave you something to think
about. I am not done with this topic, but I think
Dave probably will be, so who knows if we're
going to do this again. But if you like this,
we can comment on it and tell us to do it again.
I've got so many more things that we could talk
about that disprove the flat Earth. However,
I wanted to include you guys in this. I wanted
you to have a little bit of fun with me in a
game. I like to call where in the world is this
idiot? So I have found Florida. I have found
three news stories of flat earthers who have
been arrested for crimes. And some of them are
actually really goddamn funny. All you need to
do is to guess what state they're in. You ready
to play? Ready to go. What's going to happen
is I'm going to read just a few bits of the story.
I will leave the location out and then I will
ask you, where do you think the story is? Oh,
this is going to be so much fun. I love this
game. Okay. A police spokesperson has confirmed
the man who wrote COVID hoax outside a Walmart
on Wednesday morning was the man with pro flat
earth signage on his car outside his home. I
want to say Virginia. North Carolina. Okay. Both
not close. Texas. Oh, right. Texas. Too far east.
Yeah, I was actually surprised too. I genuinely
thought like Florida. This one's really funny.
I think it's really funny. A local man who espoused
his flat -earth beliefs was escorted out of Monday
night's city council meeting by the city police
and arrested after he caused the disruption when
he refused to stop talking about the theory.
It's got to be a liberal place because otherwise
they would have celebrated him. With State, what
do you think? What do you think, Maynard? I'm
going Colorado. Okay. I'll go California. You
guys are going to be really disappointed. New
York. Upstate New York, but New York nonetheless.
It's kind of a different world. All right. This
one's just kind of dumb. A man advocating that
the moon landings were fake. And the earth is
flat was handcuffed and detained Tuesday by this
state university police department as they attempted
to identify him. So let me tell you, let me give
you a little backstory because this is the funny
part. Police arrived at the university in front
of some center at the university. I'm not going
to give it away. Following an emergency call
that reported a fight between. Peter Jarvio,
who set up an informational display at a college,
mind you, that the moon landings were fake and
that the Earth is flat in an unidentified male.
Oh, no, it wasn't unidentified male at the time.
The report states that following a heated discussion,
the unidentified male. Oh, OK, now I understand.
So let me back up a little bit. Peter Jarvio
set up the display saying that the moon landings
are fake and the Earth is flat. And he was speaking
with an unidentified male. After a heated discussion,
the unidentified male knocked over Jarvio's sign.
The unidentified male was upset by this theory
because he is a physicist and the earth is not
flat. Direct quote. I gotta go Florida. What
do you think? What do you think, Maynard? I mean,
that's a really good guess, but I'm going to
go the opposite way and say New Hampshire. Oh,
I'm sorry, gentlemen. Ohio. We were looking for...
Ohio. Kent State University. Okay. Now I've got
an extra credit. This is going to be for all
the marbles because you didn't get the other
two. This is a nation. So I won't give the town.
I want you to guess the nation. One hint is that...
It is not the United States. So a family argument
over whether the earth is flat or round became
so heated that one of the participants threw
a propane cylinder onto a campfire, prompting
an intervention by firefighters. Denmark. Germany.
Canada. It happened in Canada. Man. The older
man insisted the earth was round. And his son
and his girlfriend insisted that the earth was
flat. It's not clear if anyone at the campfire
put forth the argument that the earth's equatorial
bulge makes it not perfectly round, but instead
a shape known as an oblate spheroid. Nevertheless,
police said the man became so enraged he began
throwing things into the fire. I mean, imagine
getting so angry when talking to someone who's
clearly an idiot that you just start throwing
shit into a fire. I get it. I get it too. I'm
not even mad. That actually makes the most out
of any fucking thing we've heard on the podcast.
Yeah. So, um, that's it guys. What do you think?
I think there's some really dumb people out there.
Yes. Yes. And I actually do watch them debate.
I like to watch them debate. I would actually
recommend for anybody who's interested in watching
Flat Earth debates, you check out Professor Dave
Explains. If you so, go to YouTube, check out
either Professor Dave Explains, Simon Dan, Fight
the Flat Earth, or The Creaky Blinder. All four
of these guys are really funny. Professor Dave
is the only American. And he is absolutely brutal.
He did a debate with Dave Weiss. This guy created
an app for the flat Earth that contains a clock
that would only be accurate if the Earth were
round. But he didn't know that. So he just put
it in the code. He also had a massive data breach
where the names and addresses of all the people
who downloaded the app and paid for it were released.
Good. Total moron. And when he talks, he doesn't
understand things. So Professor Dave just beat
the shit out of him verbally. It was so embarrassing.
Fight the Flat Earth is also incredibly mean
and just... embarrasses everyone uh simon dan
is a little bit more reserved but he gives a
lot more of the science aspect as to why the
earth isn't isn't flat or couldn't be flat he
does like a lot of debunking of their proofs
and then creaky blinder is just this funny guy
from wales who he also gives like good good like
advice and if you want to see cc from uh cc chris
from westchester county and i say that because
that's how he introduces himself in every video
So it's become a bit of a meme in the anti -Flat
Earth community, but Creaky Blinder does a lot
of Chris videos. So yeah, those are places you
can go to check it out. You should check it out
because it's hilarious and stupid. Very stupid,
but hilarious. I'm pretty sure I'm dumber from
listening to this. I am dumber for writing it.
Yeah, I'm going to sue myself. Morgan and Morgan.
All right, so this is the part of the show where,
do you guys have anything you want to plug? Cam,
you got anything you want to plug? Drink Narragansett
beer. That's my whole thing. I'm wearing my Narragansett
flannel. Hell yes. I'm actually not drinking
Narragansett right now, but that's because I
left all of it in my car, and it is pouring rain
out, so I decided to go with the Guinness Extra
Stout. But still, drink Narragansett beer. We've
got our Gord Reaver out now. kicking ass. It's
a delicious pumpkin beer. Um, so yeah, I'm not
ready to get rid of the shandy yet. So that's
what I'm working on year round, baby Maynard.
Nice. Um, honestly, follow me, follow me on Instagram.
Good stuff. Yeah. You know, Instagram just did.
I'm not going to plug Instagram itself because
their algorithm sucks and nobody posts anymore.
So that's why I say, I mean, give me a follow
there and do some stuff. That squirrely little
mutant. So, I'm sorry, what's your handle, Maynard?
That's at Maynard Rules. M -A -Y -N -E -R -D.
And E -R -D, like a nerd. Yeah. Like we're friends
with the nerds. Excellent. And normally, I'm
the one who says goodbye and I love you to the
audience. But since it's both of you, you can
both say it at different times. So, one can say
it and I won't make you try and sync it up. It
would be kind of fun. All right. All right. Ready?
One, two, three. Goodbye. And I love you. Excellent.
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