WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 you are now listening to cryptid cocktail party 00:00:42.209 --> 00:00:46.969 Alright! Woo! Welcome to Cryptid Cocktail Party. 00:00:48.310 --> 00:00:50.409 This is a show where we have a few drinks, share 00:00:50.409 --> 00:00:53.490 a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm 00:00:53.490 --> 00:00:56.869 not Dave. You could probably tell that because 00:00:56.869 --> 00:01:00.189 he did mention he was in Japan and our voices 00:01:00.189 --> 00:01:03.909 are very different. But that's okay. That's okay. 00:01:03.990 --> 00:01:07.870 I got Cam. What's up? What's going on, Cam? And 00:01:07.870 --> 00:01:13.909 I got Maynard. Hey! We needed two people to replace 00:01:13.909 --> 00:01:16.989 Dave. That's the outsized role he plays on this 00:01:16.989 --> 00:01:20.390 show. That's accurate. All right, I'll be the 00:01:20.390 --> 00:01:25.510 left side. What's going on, gentlemen? Not much, 00:01:25.629 --> 00:01:28.930 buddy. Just having a few drinks and ready to 00:01:28.930 --> 00:01:33.810 share a few laughs. Clearly, you recognize the 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:38.109 intro. Maynard, how's it going? Long weekend, 00:01:38.269 --> 00:01:41.629 man. Long weekend. Yeah. For you, I still have 00:01:41.629 --> 00:01:48.870 to work tomorrow. And I put some beer in the 00:01:48.870 --> 00:01:53.069 freezer to cool it off, and it is now slushy. 00:01:54.090 --> 00:01:57.890 It sounds like you can hear the ice and slush 00:01:57.890 --> 00:01:59.590 in that can. Yeah, I didn't want people to think 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:03.790 I was doing plops in my chair. All right. Well, 00:02:03.909 --> 00:02:07.010 we'll see how that turns out later. Okay. So 00:02:07.010 --> 00:02:12.180 I am very excited about this episode. For those 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:14.080 of you who have listened to the show, you know 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:18.979 that I love conspiracy theories. And I have a 00:02:18.979 --> 00:02:23.060 conspiracy theory that is just so dumb that only 00:02:23.060 --> 00:02:26.699 morons believe it. No, I'm not talking about 00:02:26.699 --> 00:02:30.219 QAnon, though there is some adjacency. We're 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:33.639 going to talk about fucking Flat Earth. All right. 00:02:35.449 --> 00:02:38.310 bold choice yeah yeah we're gonna debunk some 00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:42.129 stuff um and i'm i'm not a bright guy but i'm 00:02:42.129 --> 00:02:44.250 bright enough to know that the planet that i 00:02:44.250 --> 00:02:47.750 live on is round uh because of the some of the 00:02:47.750 --> 00:02:50.310 proofs that are in here but also just you know 00:02:50.310 --> 00:02:53.229 observation of being a human being on this planet 00:02:53.229 --> 00:02:56.289 and knowing that seasons can't happen if it's 00:02:56.289 --> 00:02:59.030 not round but we're gonna get into a whole bunch 00:02:59.030 --> 00:03:01.490 of stuff but but first i'm gonna take you all 00:03:01.490 --> 00:03:05.889 the way back to the year of 1830. I tried to 00:03:05.889 --> 00:03:07.969 find a sound effect for that. No sound machine. 00:03:08.090 --> 00:03:13.370 No time machine sound effect. So just make one 00:03:13.370 --> 00:03:15.229 up in your head, and that's the correct one. 00:03:15.870 --> 00:03:20.090 All right. So here we go. The year is 1830. The 00:03:20.090 --> 00:03:22.449 first public college is chartered in Alabama. 00:03:22.530 --> 00:03:25.590 And from then on, Alabama is famous for being 00:03:25.590 --> 00:03:31.680 a bastion of education. Joseph Smith. establishes 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:33.919 the Church of Latter -day Saints, officially 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.500 beginning the era of weird underwear and pale 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:38.900 virgins and short -sleeved white button -downs, 00:03:38.900 --> 00:03:41.759 trying to convince perfectly normal people that 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.680 Joseph Smith wasn't a con man and renowned sex 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.319 pest. And funny commercials in the 80s. Oh, very 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.659 funny commercials in the 80s. Hooray for soaking. 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:55.939 Edward Beard Budding of England invented the 00:03:55.939 --> 00:03:59.120 lawnmower and it's immediately classified. as 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:02.680 a weapon of grass destruction. You're welcome 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:07.159 for that dad joke. And finally, British writer 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:12.639 and absolute fucking donkey, Samuel Burley Robotham, 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:16.680 finds a commune consisting of science -illiterate 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:19.560 morons who believe the Earth is flat, despite 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.720 centuries worth of research to the contrary. 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:26.300 I didn't know that the modern flat Earth went 00:04:26.300 --> 00:04:30.660 back that far. Yeah, yeah. In fact, a lot of 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:34.139 the things that Robotham talks about are parroted 00:04:34.139 --> 00:04:37.899 by some of the morons who are currently influencing 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:42.040 in this space. It's sad. It's really sad. So 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.160 I'm going to get into a little bit of Flat Earth. 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:46.819 So you can't really talk about it without kind 00:04:46.819 --> 00:04:49.759 of defining it a little bit. It's not just that 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.319 the Earth is flat. So let me get into some of 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.730 the things that they believe. Proponents of Flat 00:04:56.730 --> 00:04:59.930 Earth believe the planet we live on is a flat 00:04:59.930 --> 00:05:03.709 plane. They believe that what we know as Antarctica 00:05:03.709 --> 00:05:06.689 is not a continent, but actually an ice wall 00:05:06.689 --> 00:05:10.709 which contains the world's oceans. There is a 00:05:10.709 --> 00:05:13.529 sweeping government conspiracy spanning most, 00:05:13.589 --> 00:05:16.170 if not all, of the world, but definitely the 00:05:16.170 --> 00:05:19.430 56 signers of the Antarctic Treaty, to keep the 00:05:19.430 --> 00:05:22.569 true shape of the Earth a secret. For reasons 00:05:22.569 --> 00:05:27.019 no one... has ever crossed Antarctica, so that's 00:05:27.019 --> 00:05:29.560 right out. And no one aside from the military 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:33.560 is allowed to go to Antarctica. Or, conversely, 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:36.600 some believe you can go to Antarctica if you 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:38.639 get permission, but they won't let you go too 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:46.139 far. That's like anal. It just depends on how 00:05:46.139 --> 00:05:50.100 much Sambuca you have. So there's a bunch of 00:05:50.100 --> 00:05:52.240 other beliefs and subcategories, and some of 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:53.839 the things I said on here kind of contradict 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.459 each other. Some flat earthers assume we live 00:05:57.459 --> 00:06:01.519 on like a pizza kind of thing, like a flat plate 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.920 almost. Others aren't sure. They think there 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:06.920 might be an ice wall that contains the earth, 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.019 and then outside the ice wall there's just more 00:06:09.019 --> 00:06:13.480 land and more people. It just keeps going? Yeah, 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.680 yeah. I even heard one flat earther say he's 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.660 not even sure. That the flat disc that we're 00:06:20.660 --> 00:06:25.399 on is round. It might be square. You know, there's 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:29.339 so many squares in nature. So that adds up. Are 00:06:29.339 --> 00:06:31.300 there more like Chick -fil -A's and McDonald's 00:06:31.300 --> 00:06:34.459 on the other side? I mean, what if there was 00:06:34.459 --> 00:06:37.819 better than Chick -fil -A and McDonald's? Right. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.600 What if there's a Chick -fil -A that doesn't 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.839 hate gay people? Right. I mean, that's a Chick 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:45.699 -fil -A we can all get behind. And you might 00:06:45.699 --> 00:06:49.129 have just pushed me into the flat earth. all 00:06:49.129 --> 00:06:53.410 right for a better tomorrow so uh one thing i 00:06:53.410 --> 00:06:55.129 want to get clear right off the bat the flat 00:06:55.129 --> 00:06:59.209 earth society is a joke those aren't they they're 00:06:59.209 --> 00:07:02.009 not actually flat earthers they're mocking flat 00:07:02.009 --> 00:07:05.029 earthers that's why they're uh they have that 00:07:05.029 --> 00:07:07.290 little slogan you know millions of flat earthers 00:07:07.290 --> 00:07:11.579 all around the globe um it is a joke um And they 00:07:11.579 --> 00:07:13.939 get very mad when you lump them in with those 00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:17.339 people. So please continue to do that because 00:07:17.339 --> 00:07:19.920 it's hilarious when they get angry. Let's see. 00:07:20.019 --> 00:07:22.459 Okay, so we're just going to talk about a few 00:07:22.459 --> 00:07:25.139 of the things that they believe because it will 00:07:25.139 --> 00:07:28.220 be a multi -episode thing. And it's actually 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:30.480 really maddening because it's like talking to 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.899 a toddler who's insisting that there's a monster 00:07:32.899 --> 00:07:34.839 under their bed. You just can't convince them 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:39.410 otherwise. So I, in preparation for this, have 00:07:39.410 --> 00:07:42.350 watched a lot of Flat Earth videos. Specifically, 00:07:42.410 --> 00:07:47.050 Nathan Thompson, who's a moron. Nathan Oakley, 00:07:47.149 --> 00:07:52.410 also a moron. Eric Dubé, probably a moron. CC 00:07:52.410 --> 00:07:54.569 Chris from Westchester County, his wife actually 00:07:54.569 --> 00:07:58.569 called him a moron on his own video. And instead 00:07:58.569 --> 00:08:00.930 of cutting that part out, he left it in there. 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.139 He was in his kitchen, like, starting to ramble 00:08:04.139 --> 00:08:06.240 on about the flat earth, and his wife was, like, 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.899 really hungry and wanted to go to dinner. Oh, 00:08:08.899 --> 00:08:11.259 I saw that! She's like, are you still doing this 00:08:11.259 --> 00:08:14.220 shit? And then she called him, actually, no, 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.339 I'm sorry, she called him an idiot. If you can 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:20.060 see videos of CC Chris from Westchester County, 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:25.079 holy shit. I have never heard a more stupid person 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:29.879 be so confidently wrong in all of my life. Is 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.340 he stupid or is his wife just a deep state plant? 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.360 Dude, he says stuff that like you already know 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.419 isn't true. And so when you hear him talk, you're 00:08:40.419 --> 00:08:43.620 like, you have to know that that's not right. 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.679 Like he says nonsense. Um, and then there's a 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.379 couple other jackasses like level earth observer, 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.059 some dipshit named Dave Weiss, who definitely 00:08:54.059 --> 00:08:56.299 doesn't believe in the flat earth, but he's definitely 00:08:56.299 --> 00:09:00.080 like, uh, scamming them. He's like a huge grifter. 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.419 Santo Spallacci. He is the angriest elf I've 00:09:05.419 --> 00:09:07.799 ever seen. He's like two feet tall and he swears 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.879 constantly. Really doesn't like the gaze. Anyway, 00:09:12.019 --> 00:09:14.860 so these are just some of the luminaries that 00:09:14.860 --> 00:09:20.179 believe in this crazy theory. I will warn you, 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:22.879 the Nathans, Nathan Thompson and Nathan Oakley, 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:27.399 are kind of like... the worst their countries 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.980 have to offer. I think Nathan Thompson is from 00:09:31.980 --> 00:09:34.299 England or Nathan Oakley is from the United States. 00:09:35.019 --> 00:09:38.179 And they are exactly the worst kind of person 00:09:38.179 --> 00:09:40.799 you would expect from those countries. Just in 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:44.100 general. So, while they all have different styles, 00:09:44.299 --> 00:09:46.639 they're equally scientifically illiterate, incapable 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.000 of understanding Occam's razor, and terminally 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.879 afflicted with what is commonly referred to as 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.220 the Dunning -Kruger effect, which in and of itself 00:09:54.220 --> 00:09:56.639 is a widely misunderstood theory that I'm going 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.419 to quickly explain, because a lot of people say 00:09:58.419 --> 00:10:00.539 Dunning -Kruger, and it actually means something 00:10:00.539 --> 00:10:02.080 slightly different from what we think it means. 00:10:03.259 --> 00:10:05.990 So... Not to bore you too much, but it's commonly 00:10:05.990 --> 00:10:09.110 believed that incompetent individuals overestimate 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:11.230 their abilities due to a lack of self -awareness. 00:10:11.330 --> 00:10:14.429 And while that is kind of true, it's not entirely 00:10:14.429 --> 00:10:16.190 true. And I believed this for a long time, so 00:10:16.190 --> 00:10:18.289 I'm not attacking anyone who didn't fully understand 00:10:18.289 --> 00:10:20.690 this study. However, the original research is 00:10:20.690 --> 00:10:23.309 actually a little bit more nuanced. Recent study 00:10:23.309 --> 00:10:25.370 revisiting Dunning -Kruger found that those with 00:10:25.370 --> 00:10:28.750 low ability actually underestimate their own 00:10:28.750 --> 00:10:31.360 abilities, while those with high ability... tend 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.580 to slightly overestimate themselves. But overall, 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:36.399 the most consistent finding between both the 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.299 original study and the most recent testing of 00:10:38.299 --> 00:10:40.299 it found that most people think they're better 00:10:40.299 --> 00:10:43.279 than average regardless of their skill set. The 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.419 takeaway here is stay humble. And now let's all 00:10:46.419 --> 00:10:49.419 point and laugh at these flat Earth morons. So, 00:10:49.460 --> 00:10:51.299 to help us understand why this notion of flat 00:10:51.299 --> 00:10:54.940 Earth is dumb, let's start with fundamental principles 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:58.799 of astronomy. The lunar eclipse. Everybody knows 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.250 what a lunar eclipse is, right? It's when you 00:11:01.250 --> 00:11:02.990 throw a frisbee up in the sky and it blocks the 00:11:02.990 --> 00:11:05.830 moon for like a second. Very close, but incorrect. 00:11:07.830 --> 00:11:10.389 It is also not when you pull your pants up after 00:11:10.389 --> 00:11:15.309 mooning someone. So a lunar eclipse is when the 00:11:15.309 --> 00:11:20.610 moon goes behind the earth. And so you, uh, don't 00:11:20.610 --> 00:11:25.990 see the, uh, the, the earth shadow covers the 00:11:25.990 --> 00:11:30.309 moon. You're blocking the sun's path to the moon. 00:11:30.450 --> 00:11:32.549 Actually, no, that's incorrect. That is a new 00:11:32.549 --> 00:11:36.470 moon. Excuse me. Let me get back to my information 00:11:36.470 --> 00:11:38.470 because I'm being dumb. Isn't it when the moon 00:11:38.470 --> 00:11:43.470 blocks out the sun? That's a solar eclipse, but 00:11:43.470 --> 00:11:45.070 hold on a second. So one of the key pieces of 00:11:45.070 --> 00:11:46.950 evidence for a spherical Earth is a phenomenon 00:11:46.950 --> 00:11:49.370 of lunar eclipses. During a lunar eclipse, the 00:11:49.370 --> 00:11:52.090 Earth casts a round shadow on the moon. This 00:11:52.090 --> 00:11:54.370 shadow is consistently curved, proving that the 00:11:54.370 --> 00:11:57.960 Earth is indeed a sphere. So many people smarter 00:11:57.960 --> 00:11:59.679 than us are listening to this right now, just 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.980 pissed off. Super mad and I apologize. But honestly, 00:12:04.179 --> 00:12:06.559 a new moon is also evidence of a round earth 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.440 because it wouldn't happen if the moon wasn't 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.879 going around us. It's also not a great book by 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:19.870 Stephanie Myers. All right, so before the flat 00:12:19.870 --> 00:12:22.129 earth clowns start mumbling, but disks are round 00:12:22.129 --> 00:12:24.990 too. That's true, disks are round, but if we're 00:12:24.990 --> 00:12:27.549 standing on the broad face of that disk, like 00:12:27.549 --> 00:12:30.549 the disk is horizontal and we're standing on 00:12:30.549 --> 00:12:33.309 it, then the sun and the moon are above us. There's 00:12:33.309 --> 00:12:36.009 no way our disk would cast a round shadow on 00:12:36.009 --> 00:12:39.269 the thing above us because we would need a light 00:12:39.269 --> 00:12:41.330 source of some kind. What's coming from underneath 00:12:41.330 --> 00:12:43.750 us to block out the light. You know what I mean? 00:12:44.669 --> 00:12:47.149 It sounds like you're thinking about it. Yeah. 00:12:47.149 --> 00:12:49.029 Don't think about it. Probably shouldn't be thinking 00:12:49.029 --> 00:12:51.269 about it. So like the moon, everybody knows the 00:12:51.269 --> 00:12:53.149 moon is just reflecting the light of the sun, 00:12:53.230 --> 00:12:56.789 right? Yes. The flat earth belief is that the 00:12:56.789 --> 00:12:59.230 moon and the sun are both generating light. And 00:12:59.230 --> 00:13:00.990 some of the flat earthers actually believe that 00:13:00.990 --> 00:13:06.190 the moon is generating cold light. Oh. Oh, man. 00:13:06.269 --> 00:13:08.409 Yeah, it's real dumb. Because what they do is 00:13:08.409 --> 00:13:10.549 they take like a thing that measures the air 00:13:10.549 --> 00:13:14.149 temperature and they... they measure the moonlight 00:13:14.149 --> 00:13:15.970 temperature, but then they measure the temperature 00:13:15.970 --> 00:13:19.330 underneath an umbrella. Like, you know, patio 00:13:19.330 --> 00:13:22.750 umbrella. What they're failing to realize is 00:13:22.750 --> 00:13:25.289 that the patio umbrella is somewhat trapping 00:13:25.289 --> 00:13:28.370 some of the daytime heat, but they think that 00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:30.710 the light from, they really do believe this, 00:13:30.750 --> 00:13:33.870 that the light from the moon is actually cold. 00:13:34.529 --> 00:13:38.750 Is this just any old patio umbrella? Yeah, any 00:13:38.750 --> 00:13:45.200 old patio umbrella. Right. So, Man, guys, I first 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.279 learned about this, and I was just blown away. 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:50.740 I am an idiot, as you can tell from me not knowing 00:13:50.740 --> 00:13:54.120 how to describe a lunar eclipse. But holy shit. 00:13:55.139 --> 00:13:58.379 Like, do like three seconds of research. It's 00:13:58.379 --> 00:14:00.860 tough when it's so stupid that you feel stupid 00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:03.120 because you're trying to understand how somebody 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:06.299 could believe it. Like, my brain is hurting right 00:14:06.299 --> 00:14:09.419 now, and I'm like, I'm not... I agree. I'm also 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:11.019 not the smartest person in the world, but how 00:14:11.019 --> 00:14:15.320 can somebody this fucking dumb? Yeah. So now 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.000 let's talk about constellations. We don't all 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.720 know what constellations are, right? They're 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.840 shapes that ancestors believed the stars were 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.940 making. Yeah. Okay. They're nothing different 00:14:26.940 --> 00:14:29.080 than that, right? Like O 'Brien with his big 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:34.039 swinging dick? What? Oh, that's Orion. O 'Brien's 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.259 a guy I knew in college. I don't know. O 'Brien 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:38.399 also apparently had a big dick. So congratulations 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.000 on your dick, O 'Brien. Unusual for an Irish 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.559 guy. Yeah, that's true. They don't call it the 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.419 curse for nothing. So the reason I'm bringing 00:14:46.419 --> 00:14:49.740 this up is we're residents of the Northern Hemisphere. 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.159 We live in Northern United States on the Northeast. 00:14:53.940 --> 00:14:56.019 So we're lucky enough to have a year -round visibility 00:14:56.019 --> 00:14:58.620 of Polaris. You guys know Polaris North Star, 00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:03.320 right? Yep. Okay. So commonly referred to. As 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.980 the North Star, Polaris is kind of our guide 00:15:06.980 --> 00:15:11.039 to not necessarily true North, but North. And 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.200 if you are too in the Northern Hemisphere, but 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.019 have never seen the North Star, I can help you 00:15:15.019 --> 00:15:17.720 out on a clear night. Go outside, find Ursa Major, 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:21.980 or as most commonly known, the Big Dipper. Ursa 00:15:21.980 --> 00:15:25.539 Major looks a little like a rectangle, rectangular 00:15:25.539 --> 00:15:28.840 like ladle. It's a little wider on one side than 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.460 the other, and then a long curved tail. And if 00:15:31.460 --> 00:15:34.179 you look at the end of the rectangle, opposite 00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:37.399 the side with the tail, starting at the narrower 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.000 corner and move to the wider corner and then 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.559 draw a straight line, that's the North Star. 00:15:44.620 --> 00:15:48.480 So if you're, there's the corner, there's a corner, 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.820 and then the handle kind of goes down, you want 00:15:50.820 --> 00:15:53.879 to look that way and you will see it. And for 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.059 those of you who are not watching this on video, 00:15:57.910 --> 00:16:00.350 You know, Google it. So anyway... The video, 00:16:00.409 --> 00:16:02.649 it did look like you were a 58 -year -old man 00:16:02.649 --> 00:16:07.230 trying to dab. Yeah. For those of you who are 00:16:07.230 --> 00:16:09.590 missing it, I do look like an elderly man dabbing. 00:16:10.629 --> 00:16:14.169 But anyway, the bottom line is, Polaris is the 00:16:14.169 --> 00:16:17.929 North Star. Interesting and fun fact about the 00:16:17.929 --> 00:16:20.870 North Star, it is not visible in the Southern 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:24.240 Hemisphere. So like if you were to turn around 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.980 and see the Southern Cross, you were not looking 00:16:26.980 --> 00:16:28.860 at the North Star. You were looking at something 00:16:28.860 --> 00:16:33.179 else. So if you can't see it, that's because 00:16:33.179 --> 00:16:35.220 there's a whole ass fucking planet in the way. 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:37.100 The Southern Cross is only visible year -round 00:16:37.100 --> 00:16:40.200 from below the equator. There are times you can 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.100 see the Southern Cross from southern Florida, 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.460 but never year -round. You can only see it in 00:16:44.460 --> 00:16:48.419 like May. So ask yourself this question. If the 00:16:48.419 --> 00:16:50.919 Earth were flat, Why couldn't you see both the 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:53.500 North Star and the Southern Cross at the same 00:16:53.500 --> 00:16:57.779 time? It's true. Because it's impossible, that's 00:16:57.779 --> 00:17:00.299 why. Oh, I thought we were trying to come up 00:17:00.299 --> 00:17:04.400 with the Flat Earth. There's no way to describe 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:06.400 it. And Flat Earthers just dance around this 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:10.220 all the time. So the Southern Cross is kind of 00:17:10.220 --> 00:17:14.180 how mariners south of the equator would... guide 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:15.859 when they couldn't see the North Star. That's 00:17:15.859 --> 00:17:17.980 kind of the idea. So it's not just the Southern 00:17:17.980 --> 00:17:19.599 Cross that's obscured in the Northern Hemisphere. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:25.359 You also can't see Phoenix, Groose, Takana, Eridanus, 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:30.079 Hydrus, Lupus, Cruz, Centaurus, and Carina, among 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:32.759 others. Now, I might have mispronounced all those, 00:17:32.900 --> 00:17:37.559 but that's okay, because I am stupid. And that's 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.240 okay, too. But below the equator, you can't see 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.880 Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Perseus, Lynx, Draco, 00:17:44.679 --> 00:17:48.539 Cepheus. Cassiopeia. Oh, God. Why did I put this 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:51.299 in there and not look it up? Camelopardalis. 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.799 And something that looks like arugula, but it's 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.319 not arugula. There's a lot of constellations 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.640 that you can't see below the equator. Camelopardalis 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:06.819 is what RFK has. Yes. Yes. It is a fancy word 00:18:06.819 --> 00:18:11.529 for brain worms. You can observe this year -round, 00:18:11.589 --> 00:18:13.390 too, as long as you have a mostly clear sky. 00:18:13.490 --> 00:18:15.910 You can be reassured that if you can't see certain 00:18:15.910 --> 00:18:18.130 constellations, it's because the Earth is still 00:18:18.130 --> 00:18:21.109 round. So good news there. Now, let's talk a 00:18:21.109 --> 00:18:25.250 little bit about Antarctica. You know, that continent 00:18:25.250 --> 00:18:27.230 that's very cold. For those of you who are very 00:18:27.230 --> 00:18:29.869 unfamiliar, this is a cold place that has penguins, 00:18:29.890 --> 00:18:32.789 not the cold place that has Santa and polar bears. 00:18:33.569 --> 00:18:35.690 Unlike the North Pole, Antarctica is actually 00:18:35.690 --> 00:18:37.549 a continent where the North Pole is just a huge 00:18:37.549 --> 00:18:41.109 mass of floating ice. So stupid people who are 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:43.849 easily fooled also believe that Antarctica is 00:18:43.849 --> 00:18:46.150 actually a wall of ice surrounding the flat earth 00:18:46.150 --> 00:18:48.230 keeping the water in, as I previously mentioned. 00:18:48.910 --> 00:18:51.630 These total and utter boobs also believe that 00:18:51.630 --> 00:18:55.150 Antarctica has various militaries which have 00:18:55.150 --> 00:18:58.589 come together to keep people out. Which is news 00:18:58.589 --> 00:19:01.190 to all of the people who go there literally every 00:19:01.190 --> 00:19:03.450 single year. Like you can get in a boat and just 00:19:03.450 --> 00:19:08.740 go there. I like to play it there. Yes, yes, 00:19:08.859 --> 00:19:11.099 Metallica played there. They're the only band 00:19:11.099 --> 00:19:13.380 to play every continent. That's pretty impressive. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.279 I'm glad Kiss didn't play there because I want 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:23.880 there to be one pristine spot on the globe. So 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.079 one such group of people went to a place called 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:30.480 Union Glacier, or as the British say, Glacier, 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:35.400 in 2024. To film the 24 hours of sun that Antarctica 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:38.799 experiences during its summer months. You guys 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.420 know about that, right? Well, that's why Kiss 00:19:41.420 --> 00:19:43.940 couldn't go there. They like to rock and roll 00:19:43.940 --> 00:19:45.940 all night and party every day. It's in their 00:19:45.940 --> 00:19:50.339 contracts. You can't party every day if the day 00:19:50.339 --> 00:19:53.119 is 24 hours long. That makes sense because Gene 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.299 Simmons, he needs his sleep. Yeah, you can't 00:19:56.299 --> 00:19:57.640 rock and roll all night if there's no night. 00:19:58.220 --> 00:20:02.750 Exactly. I agree. So 24 hours of sun. In Antarctica, 00:20:02.829 --> 00:20:06.470 it's only possible on a globe. Because on the 00:20:06.470 --> 00:20:08.849 flat Earth model, the sun spins around the disk 00:20:08.849 --> 00:20:13.650 like a spirograph. It's just going all the way 00:20:13.650 --> 00:20:16.369 around the outside. That's how they can account 00:20:16.369 --> 00:20:18.809 for darkness on certain sides of the planet. 00:20:20.609 --> 00:20:24.349 Yeah, and they also forgot about the top part 00:20:24.349 --> 00:20:27.430 of the Earth. It also does that on the opposite 00:20:27.430 --> 00:20:30.369 months. So for them, that's an easy one. Oh. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:36.319 Because in their mind, the North Pole is in the 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:40.680 center in their map. And so it's easy for that 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.839 to have 24 -hour sun. But if the ice wall, where 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.920 the sun is constantly zooming around like a spirograph, 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.779 has 24 hours of daylight, you would need multiple 00:20:51.779 --> 00:20:56.359 suns for that. Which, sadly, unfortunately, is 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:03.059 also a flat -earth theory. God, I feel dumb trying 00:21:03.059 --> 00:21:06.400 to explain this. I can see you struggling. It's 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.779 okay. It's so hard. We're going to get through 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:10.759 this together. So this group was unique also 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:13.940 because four Flat Earth influencers were in attendance. 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.920 There's Flat Earth influencers? Oh yeah, I mentioned 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:20.000 them. I mentioned a whole bunch of them. I'm 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.579 going to mention another one right now. I don't 00:21:21.579 --> 00:21:23.180 think you said the word influencer, though. I 00:21:23.180 --> 00:21:25.140 think that just really... I mean, ultimately, 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:26.960 that's what they... They're like YouTubers, but 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.019 they're influencers. They're trying to get you 00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:31.680 to believe in this nonsense. They've got tactical 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:35.220 flashlight sponsorships. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, 00:21:35.339 --> 00:21:40.220 and they span the gamut of fucking stupid theories 00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:42.839 as well. We're going to get into that in a segment 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:44.500 I have at the end of this that's going to be 00:21:44.500 --> 00:21:47.420 a little bit of fun for all of us. Oh, boy. Yeah, 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:51.079 so... One of them is a guy named Jaron Campanella. 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:55.940 His YouTube channel was called Jaronism. And 00:21:55.940 --> 00:22:00.180 Jaron was famous because in the first Flat Earth 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:05.740 documentary on YouTube, which was called... Was 00:22:05.740 --> 00:22:08.579 it like Level With Me or something? I don't remember. 00:22:09.339 --> 00:22:12.980 But it had a number of famous failures of Flat 00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:16.519 Earth experiments. One of them... This guy named 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:20.059 Bob Nodal, who's recently passed. And Bob had 00:22:20.059 --> 00:22:22.960 purchased an extremely expensive, I want to say 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.460 it was something like $20 ,000 laser gyroscope. 00:22:28.579 --> 00:22:31.319 Now this gyroscope was so sensitive, it would 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:35.259 have picked up the Earth's rotation if the Earth 00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:37.319 were to rotate. Because flat earthers believe 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.259 that the Earth is completely stationary and does 00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:43.920 not rotate. So Bob turned on this laser gyroscope. 00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:50.160 and picked up a 15 degree per hour drift, which 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.380 is exactly what you would expect if the Earth 00:22:52.380 --> 00:22:56.079 were rotating. Now, flat earthers will say, oh, 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:02.279 the world rotates at 1 ,000 miles an hour, which 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.200 is bad because scientists will tell you that 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.940 they don't measure rotation in miles per hour. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.500 That's silly. You would measure it in rotations 00:23:11.500 --> 00:23:15.640 per a unit of measure. For instance, the Earth 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:21.599 rotates once a day. So that's 15 degrees per 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.519 hour in order to get a full 360 degree rotation. 00:23:25.940 --> 00:23:28.240 Mind blown. So that's why the gyroscope was picking 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:32.059 up a 15 degree per hour drift. They fucking solved 00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:36.619 that. Yeah, and he put it on Netflix. And they 00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:39.059 were arguing, trying to figure out how it happened. 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:42.259 You didn't say it was on fucking Netflix. It 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:44.160 was on Netflix. I think it's called Level With 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.119 Me. I'm pretty sure that's the name of it. Oh 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:51.599 my god, it's still there? Yeah. So the reason 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:53.500 I'm bringing this up is that Jaron had the most 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:56.200 famous one because he did an experiment where 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:00.259 he had two boards with holes in them. Not glory 00:24:00.259 --> 00:24:03.599 holes. That was my first thought too. He had 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.380 them spread out over a distance and his belief 00:24:07.380 --> 00:24:10.220 was if he shined a light through one hole, you 00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:12.700 should be able to see the light through the other 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:16.539 hole. Even though, you know, if the earth was 00:24:16.539 --> 00:24:18.039 curved, you wouldn't be able to see it, but the 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.279 earth wasn't curved. You would be able to see 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:22.220 it. Now it's a little bit more complicated than 00:24:22.220 --> 00:24:24.900 that. There's some more, uh, there's like a whole 00:24:24.900 --> 00:24:27.000 debate about it, but ultimately what happened 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:29.160 is he looked through the hole and didn't see 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.559 the light. So then he told the guy all the way 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:35.180 down via radio, like raise the light higher. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:38.569 And when you raise the light higher, to beat 00:24:38.569 --> 00:24:41.609 the curve of the fucking earth he saw the light 00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:46.589 his response to this was not oh man i was wrong 00:24:46.589 --> 00:24:52.329 his response was interesting and it got clipped 00:24:52.329 --> 00:24:56.190 in every like science youtuber that talks about 00:24:56.190 --> 00:24:59.869 flat earth uses bob saying a 15 degree per hour 00:24:59.869 --> 00:25:05.329 drift and jaron going interesting In fact, if 00:25:05.329 --> 00:25:08.950 you go to Simon Dan's channel, who is a science 00:25:08.950 --> 00:25:12.950 communicator on YouTube, he's very funny. He 00:25:12.950 --> 00:25:17.309 sells a 15 degree per hour drift clock. You can 00:25:17.309 --> 00:25:20.029 just hang it on your wall and it's just got 15s 00:25:20.029 --> 00:25:22.130 all the way around it. It's great. I fucking 00:25:22.130 --> 00:25:25.690 want one. Yeah, it's really funny. Okay, so anyway, 00:25:25.849 --> 00:25:27.609 the whole reason I bring up Jaren is because 00:25:27.609 --> 00:25:31.069 Jaren was given a free trip. down to Antarctica 00:25:31.069 --> 00:25:34.430 because they wanted to prove to him that the 00:25:34.430 --> 00:25:39.490 world was round. And to Jaron's credit, he has 00:25:39.490 --> 00:25:41.890 since left the Flat Earth movement because he's 00:25:41.890 --> 00:25:44.490 an honest person who is capable of learning new 00:25:44.490 --> 00:25:47.150 information. Now, another Flat Earther named 00:25:47.150 --> 00:25:52.170 Austin Witsit, he also went down to Antarctica, 00:25:52.329 --> 00:25:55.470 witnessed the 24 -hour sun, and remains a moron. 00:25:56.769 --> 00:25:58.960 Unfortunately. For the sunburn. I don't know 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.619 what happened to the other two. It's kind of 00:26:01.619 --> 00:26:04.079 hard to get information. But the bottom line 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.819 is you can go to Antarctica and see that the 00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:11.460 world is a globe. You can learn this by seeing 00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:13.960 the 24 -hour sun. In the Southern Cross, you 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:17.700 can kill two fucking birds with one stone. Confidently 00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:19.559 stupid, and you get somebody to pay for a vacation 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:21.880 for you? Well, I'm telling you, some of these 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.000 guys... There's this like big thing where people 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:26.819 are saying that they're grifters and that they're 00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:28.799 trying to get money. And then the flat earthers 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:30.500 are like, no, I'm poor. I'm not trying to get 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:32.359 money. And it's like, well, no, you're just not 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.839 particularly clever. So these are the only people 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:37.640 you can fucking fool. If you were kind of smart, 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.000 you might be a MAGA influencer and make more 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.519 money. Fair point. You know? Okay. So anyway, 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.599 those are like my two main points. But now we 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:50.599 can talk about NASA and all the proof that they 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:54.799 have. all have accumulated since their existence. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:57.779 But sadly, actually, we can't because nothing 00:26:57.779 --> 00:27:00.059 NASA does can be trusted because Flat Earth has 00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:02.759 claimed there's a vast conspiracy involving government 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:05.759 space agencies and scientists to hide the truth 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.819 about our planet's shape. And it all revolves 00:27:08.819 --> 00:27:11.519 around NASA and the evil things that they're 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:14.299 doing. Now, you might be asking yourself, is 00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:18.140 this plausible? No, no, fucking, of course not. 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:21.180 Of course it's not flawed. It's stupid. I mean, 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.779 NASA is filled with ex -Nazis, or at least it 00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:28.220 was. Yeah. I mean, that part's true. But the 00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:30.400 very fact that it was filled with ex -Nazis and 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.119 we know about it kind of tells you they can't 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:36.609 keep a secret. Fair. Alright, so, according to 00:27:36.609 --> 00:27:38.470 Physics World, the notion of a global conspiracy 00:27:38.470 --> 00:27:41.150 to hide the truth of the shape of the Earth is 00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:44.009 simply not tenable. It would require the involvement 00:27:44.009 --> 00:27:46.190 of thousands, if not millions, of people across 00:27:46.190 --> 00:27:49.089 various disciplines. The logistics of such a 00:27:49.089 --> 00:27:52.970 conspiracy would be impossible to maintain. Why 00:27:52.970 --> 00:27:56.210 is it impossible, you might ask? Fucking math! 00:27:57.390 --> 00:28:02.380 So, Oxford University... has a postdoctoral physicist 00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:07.799 named Dr. David Grimes. He pretty conclusively 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:10.099 eliminated this possibility based on the number 00:28:10.099 --> 00:28:12.220 of people who would have to be involved, the 00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:15.559 age of the conspiracy, and the probability of 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:17.680 the conspiracy's failure. There's a lot more 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:19.599 to this, but if I were smart enough to understand 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.200 the paper he wrote, I probably would actually 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.619 be part of the conspiracy. What I can do is explain 00:28:26.619 --> 00:28:28.539 the improbability of a flat earth based on five 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:32.269 categories. Complexity and coordination. Large 00:28:32.269 --> 00:28:34.670 -scale conspiracy theories would require coordination 00:28:34.670 --> 00:28:36.710 among multiple individuals or groups. The more 00:28:36.710 --> 00:28:41.609 people involved, the harder it becomes to keep 00:28:41.609 --> 00:28:43.569 the conspiracy under wraps. With so many moving 00:28:43.569 --> 00:28:45.950 parts, there's a higher chance of a leak or mistakes 00:28:45.950 --> 00:28:48.569 that could expose a conspiracy. And then there's 00:28:48.569 --> 00:28:50.250 human nature. People involved in a conspiracy 00:28:50.250 --> 00:28:52.670 are susceptible to human nature, including the 00:28:52.670 --> 00:28:55.529 temptation to brag, seek recognition, or act 00:28:55.529 --> 00:28:57.349 in their own self -interest. These factors... 00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:59.759 increase the likelihood of someone involved in 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:01.640 the conspiracy eventually revealing the truth. 00:29:02.180 --> 00:29:05.480 That kind of makes sense. Technological advances. 00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:07.900 In today's digital age, it's increasingly difficult 00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:10.039 to keep information hidden. Surveillance technology, 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:12.400 digital communication, and social media make 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.079 it easier for information to spread quickly and 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.019 for individuals to uncover and expose wrongdoing. 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.619 Historical precedents. The article mentions historical 00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:24.880 examples where large -scale conspiracies were 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.160 eventually exposed, such as Watergate or the 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.500 Tuskegee syphilis study. These cases demonstrate 00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:32.920 that even seemingly well -organized conspiracies 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:36.299 will eventually unravel over time due to investigative 00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:38.619 journalism, whistleblowers, or other factors. 00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:41.700 Like in the Tuskegee case, for instance, many 00:29:41.700 --> 00:29:44.900 people dying of syphilis after going to get treated 00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:48.119 for syphilis. And then finally, critical thinking 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:50.700 and skepticism. The study emphasizes the importance 00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:53.099 of critical thinking and skepticism when evaluating 00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:55.500 conspiracy theories. Encouraging individuals 00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:58.019 to critically assess evidence and question the 00:29:58.019 --> 00:29:59.900 validity of conspiracy claims can help prevent 00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:03.460 the spread of false information. Unless you're 00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:05.859 an idiot, which is why Flat Earth is so persistent. 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:09.599 So, now that we've disproven Flat Earth, just 00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.920 kidding, if experiencing gravity watching the 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.039 sunrise and set... And countless photos, videos, 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.859 and live feeds from space can't convince them. 00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.180 We have no chance. But hopefully, if you were 00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:21.660 on the fence, this gave you something to think 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:24.740 about. I am not done with this topic, but I think 00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:27.200 Dave probably will be, so who knows if we're 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:29.779 going to do this again. But if you like this, 00:30:30.019 --> 00:30:33.460 we can comment on it and tell us to do it again. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.519 I've got so many more things that we could talk 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:38.519 about that disprove the flat Earth. However, 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.650 I wanted to include you guys in this. I wanted 00:30:42.650 --> 00:30:44.970 you to have a little bit of fun with me in a 00:30:44.970 --> 00:30:49.930 game. I like to call where in the world is this 00:30:49.930 --> 00:30:58.369 idiot? So I have found Florida. I have found 00:30:58.369 --> 00:31:01.490 three news stories of flat earthers who have 00:31:01.490 --> 00:31:05.710 been arrested for crimes. And some of them are 00:31:05.710 --> 00:31:08.630 actually really goddamn funny. All you need to 00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:12.619 do is to guess what state they're in. You ready 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:15.140 to play? Ready to go. What's going to happen 00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:18.000 is I'm going to read just a few bits of the story. 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.039 I will leave the location out and then I will 00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.140 ask you, where do you think the story is? Oh, 00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:25.920 this is going to be so much fun. I love this 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:30.500 game. Okay. A police spokesperson has confirmed 00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:34.339 the man who wrote COVID hoax outside a Walmart 00:31:34.339 --> 00:31:38.000 on Wednesday morning was the man with pro flat 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.799 earth signage on his car outside his home. I 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:50.380 want to say Virginia. North Carolina. Okay. Both 00:31:50.380 --> 00:31:56.660 not close. Texas. Oh, right. Texas. Too far east. 00:31:56.980 --> 00:32:03.720 Yeah, I was actually surprised too. I genuinely 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:07.259 thought like Florida. This one's really funny. 00:32:07.339 --> 00:32:12.339 I think it's really funny. A local man who espoused 00:32:12.339 --> 00:32:15.059 his flat -earth beliefs was escorted out of Monday 00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:18.119 night's city council meeting by the city police 00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:21.839 and arrested after he caused the disruption when 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.220 he refused to stop talking about the theory. 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:28.779 It's got to be a liberal place because otherwise 00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:33.400 they would have celebrated him. With State, what 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:39.079 do you think? What do you think, Maynard? I'm 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:44.720 going Colorado. Okay. I'll go California. You 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.579 guys are going to be really disappointed. New 00:32:47.579 --> 00:32:52.380 York. Upstate New York, but New York nonetheless. 00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:59.259 It's kind of a different world. All right. This 00:32:59.259 --> 00:33:03.480 one's just kind of dumb. A man advocating that 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:06.150 the moon landings were fake. And the earth is 00:33:06.150 --> 00:33:10.029 flat was handcuffed and detained Tuesday by this 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:15.910 state university police department as they attempted 00:33:15.910 --> 00:33:18.609 to identify him. So let me tell you, let me give 00:33:18.609 --> 00:33:20.329 you a little backstory because this is the funny 00:33:20.329 --> 00:33:23.529 part. Police arrived at the university in front 00:33:23.529 --> 00:33:27.809 of some center at the university. I'm not going 00:33:27.809 --> 00:33:31.170 to give it away. Following an emergency call 00:33:31.170 --> 00:33:34.839 that reported a fight between. Peter Jarvio, 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.700 who set up an informational display at a college, 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:41.640 mind you, that the moon landings were fake and 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:44.299 that the Earth is flat in an unidentified male. 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.740 Oh, no, it wasn't unidentified male at the time. 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:50.500 The report states that following a heated discussion, 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:54.619 the unidentified male. Oh, OK, now I understand. 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.819 So let me back up a little bit. Peter Jarvio 00:33:57.819 --> 00:33:59.900 set up the display saying that the moon landings 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:02.039 are fake and the Earth is flat. And he was speaking 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:05.660 with an unidentified male. After a heated discussion, 00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:08.579 the unidentified male knocked over Jarvio's sign. 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.559 The unidentified male was upset by this theory 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.900 because he is a physicist and the earth is not 00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:22.519 flat. Direct quote. I gotta go Florida. What 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.960 do you think? What do you think, Maynard? I mean, 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:27.320 that's a really good guess, but I'm going to 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:30.090 go the opposite way and say New Hampshire. Oh, 00:34:30.150 --> 00:34:33.710 I'm sorry, gentlemen. Ohio. We were looking for... 00:34:33.710 --> 00:34:40.329 Ohio. Kent State University. Okay. Now I've got 00:34:40.329 --> 00:34:46.030 an extra credit. This is going to be for all 00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:47.530 the marbles because you didn't get the other 00:34:47.530 --> 00:34:52.929 two. This is a nation. So I won't give the town. 00:34:53.130 --> 00:34:58.070 I want you to guess the nation. One hint is that... 00:34:58.300 --> 00:35:02.880 It is not the United States. So a family argument 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.199 over whether the earth is flat or round became 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:09.239 so heated that one of the participants threw 00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:13.960 a propane cylinder onto a campfire, prompting 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:21.059 an intervention by firefighters. Denmark. Germany. 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.500 Canada. It happened in Canada. Man. The older 00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:34.300 man insisted the earth was round. And his son 00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:38.360 and his girlfriend insisted that the earth was 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:41.179 flat. It's not clear if anyone at the campfire 00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:43.820 put forth the argument that the earth's equatorial 00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:46.039 bulge makes it not perfectly round, but instead 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:48.780 a shape known as an oblate spheroid. Nevertheless, 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.280 police said the man became so enraged he began 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:58.489 throwing things into the fire. I mean, imagine 00:35:58.489 --> 00:36:02.010 getting so angry when talking to someone who's 00:36:02.010 --> 00:36:04.769 clearly an idiot that you just start throwing 00:36:04.769 --> 00:36:09.070 shit into a fire. I get it. I get it too. I'm 00:36:09.070 --> 00:36:12.630 not even mad. That actually makes the most out 00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:14.849 of any fucking thing we've heard on the podcast. 00:36:14.889 --> 00:36:20.070 Yeah. So, um, that's it guys. What do you think? 00:36:20.849 --> 00:36:23.570 I think there's some really dumb people out there. 00:36:23.650 --> 00:36:26.449 Yes. Yes. And I actually do watch them debate. 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.260 I like to watch them debate. I would actually 00:36:30.260 --> 00:36:32.639 recommend for anybody who's interested in watching 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:36.079 Flat Earth debates, you check out Professor Dave 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.679 Explains. If you so, go to YouTube, check out 00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:43.239 either Professor Dave Explains, Simon Dan, Fight 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:46.840 the Flat Earth, or The Creaky Blinder. All four 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:50.079 of these guys are really funny. Professor Dave 00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:55.429 is the only American. And he is absolutely brutal. 00:36:55.789 --> 00:37:01.989 He did a debate with Dave Weiss. This guy created 00:37:01.989 --> 00:37:05.369 an app for the flat Earth that contains a clock 00:37:05.369 --> 00:37:07.829 that would only be accurate if the Earth were 00:37:07.829 --> 00:37:10.369 round. But he didn't know that. So he just put 00:37:10.369 --> 00:37:13.710 it in the code. He also had a massive data breach 00:37:13.710 --> 00:37:16.489 where the names and addresses of all the people 00:37:16.489 --> 00:37:19.110 who downloaded the app and paid for it were released. 00:37:19.869 --> 00:37:23.880 Good. Total moron. And when he talks, he doesn't 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:27.099 understand things. So Professor Dave just beat 00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:29.679 the shit out of him verbally. It was so embarrassing. 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:33.460 Fight the Flat Earth is also incredibly mean 00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:38.010 and just... embarrasses everyone uh simon dan 00:37:38.010 --> 00:37:40.389 is a little bit more reserved but he gives a 00:37:40.389 --> 00:37:42.670 lot more of the science aspect as to why the 00:37:42.670 --> 00:37:44.969 earth isn't isn't flat or couldn't be flat he 00:37:44.969 --> 00:37:46.630 does like a lot of debunking of their proofs 00:37:46.630 --> 00:37:48.889 and then creaky blinder is just this funny guy 00:37:48.889 --> 00:37:52.170 from wales who he also gives like good good like 00:37:52.170 --> 00:37:56.090 advice and if you want to see cc from uh cc chris 00:37:56.090 --> 00:37:59.570 from westchester county and i say that because 00:37:59.570 --> 00:38:01.429 that's how he introduces himself in every video 00:38:02.139 --> 00:38:04.639 So it's become a bit of a meme in the anti -Flat 00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.119 Earth community, but Creaky Blinder does a lot 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.199 of Chris videos. So yeah, those are places you 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:13.980 can go to check it out. You should check it out 00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:18.260 because it's hilarious and stupid. Very stupid, 00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:22.739 but hilarious. I'm pretty sure I'm dumber from 00:38:22.739 --> 00:38:25.519 listening to this. I am dumber for writing it. 00:38:25.699 --> 00:38:30.960 Yeah, I'm going to sue myself. Morgan and Morgan. 00:38:32.359 --> 00:38:35.300 All right, so this is the part of the show where, 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.380 do you guys have anything you want to plug? Cam, 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.820 you got anything you want to plug? Drink Narragansett 00:38:40.820 --> 00:38:44.480 beer. That's my whole thing. I'm wearing my Narragansett 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.639 flannel. Hell yes. I'm actually not drinking 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:49.460 Narragansett right now, but that's because I 00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:52.139 left all of it in my car, and it is pouring rain 00:38:52.139 --> 00:38:54.079 out, so I decided to go with the Guinness Extra 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:57.079 Stout. But still, drink Narragansett beer. We've 00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.010 got our Gord Reaver out now. kicking ass. It's 00:39:00.010 --> 00:39:04.510 a delicious pumpkin beer. Um, so yeah, I'm not 00:39:04.510 --> 00:39:06.150 ready to get rid of the shandy yet. So that's 00:39:06.150 --> 00:39:09.949 what I'm working on year round, baby Maynard. 00:39:10.789 --> 00:39:13.730 Nice. Um, honestly, follow me, follow me on Instagram. 00:39:14.150 --> 00:39:18.269 Good stuff. Yeah. You know, Instagram just did. 00:39:18.409 --> 00:39:20.369 I'm not going to plug Instagram itself because 00:39:20.369 --> 00:39:24.230 their algorithm sucks and nobody posts anymore. 00:39:24.429 --> 00:39:26.469 So that's why I say, I mean, give me a follow 00:39:26.469 --> 00:39:29.480 there and do some stuff. That squirrely little 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.780 mutant. So, I'm sorry, what's your handle, Maynard? 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.320 That's at Maynard Rules. M -A -Y -N -E -R -D. 00:39:36.579 --> 00:39:39.199 And E -R -D, like a nerd. Yeah. Like we're friends 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:43.980 with the nerds. Excellent. And normally, I'm 00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:47.199 the one who says goodbye and I love you to the 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:50.960 audience. But since it's both of you, you can 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.940 both say it at different times. So, one can say 00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:57.320 it and I won't make you try and sync it up. It 00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.840 would be kind of fun. All right. All right. Ready? 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:06.079 One, two, three. Goodbye. And I love you. Excellent. 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:07.679 No notes.